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MISSIONARY LIRE 
SHERBRO MISSION ITS WANTS. 
. [Report made to the Board, May, 1882 .] 
Sliengay, the oldest and principal station of 
this mission, is located seven and a half degrees 
north of the equator, and immediately on the 
coast. Here there are one hundred acres of land 
belonging to the missioUp nearly all of which is 
cleared and cultivated in coffee, corn, arrowroot, 
cassava, and other things. 
• Its buildings consist of a mission-residence and 
chapel, each thirty by forty-five feet, with stone 
walls and slate roofs, making them durable. To 
this residence a frame store-house, with office and 
bedroom, is attached, which is also of a perma- 
nent character. Here are also a number of labor- 
ers’ houses, tailor, blacksmith, and carpenter 
shops, the boys’ lodging-house and rice-house, all 
country built, and hence are not very durable; 
and besides, they must be repaired once or twice 
every year. Here we have a day-school averag- 
ing seventy scholars, and a Sunday-school of one 
hundred. There are in the industrial school 
twenty-eight boys and twelve girls. These work 
about five hours and study four hours each day. 
Each morning, at 6:00 a. m., they, with laborers 
and missionaries, spend about one half an hour 
in worship; then each Tuesday evening there is a 
