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with a tumbler for medicine. Contrary to expecta- 
tion she recovered ; and the first Sunday she was at 
chapel, the reading of the story of Christ’s sufferings 
deeply affected her ; and on the Monday she came 
expressing her earnest desire to give her heart to the 
Saviour. With much joy the missionary spoke of the 
willingness of Christ to receive sinners ; the woman 
declared her faith, and resolved to live a Christian 
life. 
During this early period of his life in Africa, an 
incident occurred showing how soon Mr. Comber 
began to exercise that influence over the natives which 
in his later career was so prominent a feature in 
his character, and which so largely contributed to his 
success. Let the incident be told in his own words, 
as described in a letter to his brother Percy : — I had 
a young man brought to see me about a month ago, 
from a place called Bimbia. He was very sick, and 
almost a skeleton, scarcely ever ate anything, and 
was getting thinner every day. As Bimbia was ten 
miles away, and he was brought in one of the very 
uncomfortable rough native canoes, I asked those who 
brought him to leave him at Victoria, promising to do 
the best I could for him. This was done, one of them 
staying with him. Three days afterwards I was told 
that some of his countrymen had come to Victoria 
and carried the poor fellow off, and also his friend as 
a prisoner ; and if the sick man died, they were going 
to kill the other one, as they believed he was guilty 
of bewitching him, and causing his illness. Well, 
I determined to go off to Bimbia sharp, and do what 
I could to prevent such cruelty. So I started in a 
native canoe, taking with me a black man named 
Nakko as my interpreter, and Billy Edwards to show 
me the way back through the forest. When I got 
to Bimbia I first went to see King William, a quiet, 
well-meaning young man, whose favour I knew I had, 
because I had before cured his sister of a painful 
disease. I told him what I had heard, and asked if 
