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yet plundered, but it was full of Kossoo warriors. 
A number of the Kossoos were there, and seized 
the boat before it had fairly landed. One, in at- 
tempting to take the rudder from Tom, got worst- 
ed ; for Tom clinched him ; and Tom says, I show 
him someting.^’ It so happened that there was a 
big head-man in the town who was a good friend 
to the mission. He knew Tom and the mission- 
boat. He interfered and all was restored again. 
They gave him two men to guard him and his rice 
while he was there. The same day Brother Wil- 
liams came from Bomphetook. We went up the 
river to Tom. 
On the 11th the plundering commenced, and was 
kept up, at intervals, until the 24th. I have not 
felt any fears that they would trouble us at the 
mission. We will do all in our power to protect 
the property, and leave the rest with God. The 
people are saying, already: ^^Look how God 
great; he stop dem Kossoos from plunder Bomphe- 
rook and Shengay.” Joseph Gomer. 
NoTember, 1875. 
THEY HAD NEVER SEEN GOD. 
It was 6 o’clock in the evening, January 31st, 
1876, when Eev. A. Menzies and myself shoved 
out in the little mission-boat Sandusky for Seneho, 
at the head of the Bomphe River. By 10 o’clock 
