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and traveling is dangerous. A few weeks ago 
some young men who had gone to these places to 
hold meetings when returning had their barge 
upset, and all the articles it contained were lost. 
They floated about in the water, clinging to the 
barge,- more than two hours. Some men in a 
passing canoe finally saw them and picked them 
up. The people in those tows are arranging to 
build barras during the coming dry season.” I 
hope, however, to be able by that time to secure 
the service of some one to locate there ; for it is 
a field which promises abundant harvest. Mo 
Harah, M’Kelleh, M’Caibay, and Good Hope were 
all attended to. 
We are compelled to pass by other towns, be- 
cause we have no time. I think there is enough 
work for many more. Other stations should be 
opened, forming centers or starting-points from 
which the work is to extend. 
Daniel. F. Wilberforce. 
Shengay, West Africa, August 16, 1880. 
AN APPEAL FROM THE DARK CONTINENT. 
The organization of a mission-district in Sher- 
bro Mission, West Africa, has not only given us 
a prestige hitherto unfelt, but has necessarily 
turned our attention to the subject of giving to 
the youth of the land a higher Christian educa- 
tion, thus fitting them for Work in the Christian 
