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was not the time now to dig ground. The leop- 
ards got among our goats and killed several ; also 
one pig. A calf was attacked just in front of the 
mission-house one night. It made so much noise 
that it awoke us all. So with a lantern in one 
hand and a revolver in the other I started to the 
rescue ; hut fearing the leopard might prove 
more than a match for me, I fired at it before I 
reached it. This frightened it ofi*; but the calf 
was so badly bitten that we had to kill it. The 
cow got sick, and we had to kill hei. The goats, 
pig, and calf were all killed inside of two weeks, 
and the sow and two pigs died. 
Joseph Gomer. 
August 6, 1877. 
AFRICAN INCIDENT. 
The lesson was Acts xiv. 8-20. I asked my 
class why Paul and Barnabas did not accept of 
the honors the people wished to bestow upon 
them ; could they think of any one mentioned in 
the Bible who accepted of praise or honor ? One 
remembered a king who wore his fine clothes and 
made a speech to the people, and they said he was 
a god. Humphi said he remembered one fine 
gentleman who got one bad sick that he not liable 
to cure, and been one little gal there with his wife, 
what come out far country. She tell his wife dey 
one man in her country what liable for doctor 
