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MISSIONARY LIFE 
touched at Mammoo, and slept at Conollo, IText 
morning we passed on to the town of Bomphe* 
Here we found King Richard. The king says if 
we will furnish a school-teacher, he will give us 
the grounds and put up a country-house for school 
and dwelling. From here we passed on to Pho- 
Phi, and Candobee, a few miles further up the 
river. As we entered the town we were met by a 
very old woman, who ran to meet me, clasped my 
hand in both of hers, then danced and capered 
about like a child. When this first outburst of 
joy was over, she told me that before time when 
Mr. Billheimer been in the mission she been live 
there and cook for them boatmen, and that time 
she been hear ’bout God, but she no been hear 
good, for she no been go inside the meeting ; she 
been shame ; she want to go back to the mission 
again, but she done loss all her teeth.” When we 
told her that we were going to keep a meeting 
there that night, she took another dance. There 
is a small barra here, where the Mohammedans 
pray and teach some children to read and vrite 
Arabic. We got permission to occupy this barra, 
and soon all the people in town were assembled 
at the meeting. I never saw better attention 
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paid anywhere. Early next morning I heard a 
man crying at the top of his voice something in 
the Timiny language; and he was walking all 
