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crowded round me laughing, but I never feel any real 
fear. I know whose I am, and who is my Master, and 
am quite as ready to die as to live. Sometimes I 
think I don’t feel things enough, that I think of 
carrying out duty too barely, if you can understand 
what I mean ; there is the work for me to do, and I 
seem to go at it without thinking of drawbacks, of 
my inefficiencies, and sometimes, I am afraid, throwing 
myself too little upon Divine help. The Lord 
graciously forgive the sins and faults and neglects of 
His sinful servant” 
This second important journey was accomplished in 
twenty-one days, Mr. Comber proceeding by a branch 
of the Cameroons River called the Mungo, which he 
found to be navigable for over sixty miles, leaving it 
at a place named Malendi. From Malendi the route 
lay through thick forests, several large towns being 
passed. The lake discovered on the previous journey 
was of course an object of deep interest. It was now 
thoroughly explored ; the people on the island being 
visited. As the lake had no name in particular, and 
no other European had reached it, Mr. Comber 
determined to call it after his old friend and Sunday- 
school teacher — Lake Rickards. His reappearance 
in Bakundu occasioned much interest, and further 
information of the place and people was obtained. 
He returned to Victoria greatly encouraged with the 
results of his journey. 
In closing this chapter, it may be stated that, whilst 
circumstances, as will be presently seen, did not allow 
Mr. Comber to settle down amongst the people of 
Bakundu, a mission station before long was founded 
there, where for years the Gospel has been proclaimed 
with tokens of Divine blessing 
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