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with water in it three feet deep, — made up the 
company that called upon Mr. Caulker. He 
agreed to be ready to accompany us next day to 
Mamoo, where the other chiefs were, which he 
did,— we taking him and three other dignitaries 
in our own boat. 
We had come only a short distance when we 
met a man paddling a canoe up the river. He 
called out to Mr. Caulker that one of his wives 
had ^^born him a picken’’ in the next town. He 
asked what time, and what it was; and after 
being told, he slowly said over these words, as 
though he wished to fix them well in his mem- 
ory: A boy, 5 o’clock in the morning, January 
17th, 1880.” We soon passed that town, but he 
said nothing about stopping to see his son. We 
we were glad of it, for we had to stop farther 
along, to see a Mr. Coker. Mr. Caulker has two 
wives in this town. He has two at Sammoh, where 
he joined us that morning, two at Bomphe, where 
Mr. Coker lives, two at Mamoo, where our meet- 
ing was held, and how many where the ^^picken” 
was born, and in other places, we did not learn. 
We landed at Mamoo at 9 o’clock and left at 4, 
with the paper,^ properly signed by Mr. Caulker 
and four others, giving the Woman’s Missionary 
Association at Rotufunk the use of one hundred 
acres of ground for ninety-nine years. Our meet- 
