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a more energetic or daring person. But, thanks 
be to God, he has given us the victory. John 
Caulker and his accomplices are to-day in Free- 
town jail, and all his eftbrts to put out the fire 
which the gospel has kindled have only acted as 
so much oil thrown into the fiames. I can not 
describe to you the eftect produced upon the minds 
of the people throughout the country by the 
capture of John Caulker and his war party by the 
Sierra Leone government. The Furrow beast has 
received a death-wound in its forehead, while 
slavery in this immediate vicinity is gasping for 
breath. We missionaries and our little band of 
converts are filled with joy and gladness, because 
our ears are constantly being greeted with the 
Allah hoc harro^^ (God is great). From 
the beginning we told the people that this was 
God’s war, and that he would mind all of his peo- 
ple and bring them good out of it. l^^ot one 
Christian to our knowledge suffered except the 
women of Koolong. Quite a number of slaves 
have lost their masters, and three masters who 
were professors of religion have lost their slaves. 
The small-pox has been raging in Shengay and the 
surrounding villages for two months, and is still 
prevalent. Many have died. As soon as they are 
taken with it they are carried into the bush, to a 
farm-house. Many people come from the villages 
