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names. A woman in one hut is sitting on a mat 
by the fire, her body, limbs, and face covered with 
sores. She would come to meeting, but ^^sick 
won’t let her.” She wants us to give her some 
tobacco. We hold a short meeting ; there are only 
nineteen present besides our own party. We go 
to Shooney. The tide is up, and we have to cross 
a creek, one at a time, in a very small paddle- 
canoe. The boys swim. After meeting, one man 
wants to see me privately in his hut. He gets his 
god, gives it to me, and says : Take um; I no 
want um again.” It was the tooth of some large 
animal, perhaps a hippopotamus. From here we 
went to Cattah. Here Daniel Party, one of our 
former school-boys, has built for us a small barra. 
At the former places our meetings were in the 
open air. By 10:00 A. M. we are all back to the mis« 
sion, having held three meetings. 
Joseph Gomer. 
March, 1876. 
“GOD DONE TAKE THE COUNTRY.” 
With the beginning of the year it seemed as 
though Satan had awakened out of a sleep, shook 
himself, and set to work in earnest, putting forth 
every effort in his power to hinder the progress of 
the gospel in this field of labor. He selected for 
his prime agent John Caulker, a Mohammedan. 
It would have been very difficult for him to choose 
