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of the group. When the people of that place 
saw me, and saw that we were landing at their 
town, they all — except one girl who had been to 
Bomphetook, and had become acquainted with 
Brother 'Williams,— became so frightened that 
they gathered up what things they could carry and 
ran and hid themselves in the bush, leaving their 
cassada over the fire cooking. This is the first 
time I ever knew I was such a terrible-looking 
object as to put a whole town to fiight — especially 
one having two devil-houses, and medicine hang- 
ing at every door and on every tree about the 
town for the purpose of taking care of them. 
After considerable search the boatmen found the 
young chief, or head-man of the town, and got 
him to come back. "We gave him a quenanny, and 
told him we had not come to harm him or his 
people, but to do them good, to tell them of God, 
and that we wanted to stay in his town that night. 
He gave us permission to stay. We selected a 
barra as our place for the night, and put up our 
hammocks to sleep in. We would have had a 
very comfortable place had it not been for the fleas 
and* the mosquitoes. We set our cook to work to 
get us something to eat, and sent the chief in 
search of his people. About eight o’clock he suc- 
ceeded in getting the greater part of them back, 
after which we each did some talking. I never wit- 
