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about forty listeners. There was much water in 
the way. Rembee is a large town, and well de- 
serves a school. It has a very intelligent head- 
man. At Baccah three Miohammedan women sat 
on mats in a yard opposite where I held the 
meeting, which took place in the open air, I 
standing in the shade of a house. As these 
women were looking through the gate and watch- 
ing me, I told the head-man to invite them over. 
He said they could not come. I sent Alexander, 
my interpreter, to ask them to come over, and 
they brought their mats and sat down in the 
street and heard me through. One of them then 
. came to thank me. I asked her if she was pleas- 
ed with what I had said. She said no ; that she 
had her own religion, which she liked better. 
Everything at Shengay is about as you left it, 
I went to Bomphetook and ordered the school 
stopped because the people would not repair the 
barra. The whole town turned out at once and 
repaired it, and the school goes on. The torna- 
does have been severe this season. They nearly 
stripped the mission-house at Bomphetook and 
made fearful work with the boys’ home and the 
laborers’ houses here. The farm is coming on 
nicely. The oxen have been sick, bat are now 
well. Joseph GtOmer. 
Shengay, West Africa, June 17, 1880. o2 
