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preached at Shengay at 11:00 a. m. Mr. Billheimer 
arrived at our mission-wharf yesterday about 9:00 
A. M., remained during the day, and conducted the 
prayer-meeting in Shengay at night. "We are 
having a week of prayer. We have just returned 
from prayer-meeting. The subject for to-night 
was woman’s missionary work, and missionary 
work generally. We are all enjoying good health, 
except Brother W olfe. He is suffering very much. 
Remember us ever in your prayers. 
Mary W . Gomer. 
ABOUT THINGS IN AFRICA. 
You would laugh to see what queer little houses 
the people live in. They are built of sticks and 
daubed with mud. I have seen some not larger 
than ten feet square. People seem to live in them 
peaceably and happily ; indeed, they must be peace- 
able or such a wee bit of a house would not hold 
them. You will be surprised when I tell you that 
the women do most of the building. The men 
put up the frame- work of sticks and the women 
do the daubing or plastering. 
The other evening I went out for a walk; and 
what do you think I saw ? A great stream of 
ants that the people call ‘‘drivers.’^ The reason 
they gave them such a strange name is, they driv 
out everything where they are, such as rats, mice, 
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