IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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If we succeed in getting established at Kotu- 
funk, the ladies will have the finest station of the 
Sherbro Mission. The prospect is bright for ac- 
complishing a great work at that place. 
E. Bebken. 
May 31, 1877. 
PULLING THE BUNDOO. 
A country-woman who is the mistress of a 
white trader at Boonth came here and asked the 
chief, George Caulker, that the Bundoo women 
might pull her, as they call it, out of the Bundoo. 
Some years ago she was put in the Bundoo-bush 
and was rubbed with the clay, but was never 
properly pulled, which is quite a long ceremony 
of singing, dancing, and drinking rum. The head 
Bundoo-woman must carry a hamper of the medi- 
cines on her head, in the procession. The head- 
woman for these parts lives at Shengay and is a 
faithful member of our church. You received her 
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when you dedicated the chapel here. The chief 
said he would not allow anything of the kind in 
Shengay. She then went to Debia and got per- 
mission from the head-woman to be pulled three. 
Debia, you know, is but a short mile from Shen- 
gay. She then came here for Keffay Mehany, the 
old head-woman, to carry the blie,” or hamper. 
Keffay refused to go, saying she had no business 
there again, as she had done lefl' dat long time.” 
