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ker, of Bomphe, so we can -use it for itinerating; 
.and it will have to be used at once, to fetch man- 
grove posts to build a good boat-shed on the 
bank, on a convenient spot selected by D. F. 
Wilberforce when he was keeping the place for 
me while I was resting in Sierra Leone. So you 
see there is and always will be expensive work 
going on here. 
Chief R. C. Caulker has been off in the Bar- 
groo country for six months. 
M. M. Mair. 
Rotufunk, West Africa, July 26, 1881. 
DAILY LIFE IN WEST AFRICA. 
I was visiting some of our members, among 
them a man by the name of Hompi Tombana. 
He was converted last January, and joined the 
Church in March. He has a wife and three chil- 
dren. He belongs to the chief, and is a quiet, 
good man. He was once employed in this mis- 
sion. Yeama-Ki, a sick woman, was in the same 
house with Hompi. She was glad I had come 
back from Freetown. She was afraid she would 
die before I returned. She wants me to talk over 
her when she is dead. She is quite ready to die ; 
for she knows Jesus will take her. All her hope 
lives upon Jesus. 
In going my rounds I came upon a party of 
six or eight men who seemed to be in trouble. 
