EVENTS AND PROCEEDINGS CONTINUED. II9 
distance of fifty miles, and usually traversed in three 
days, occupied not less than three months. But the 
Plymouth was worth all the trouble of transport, for 
on being launched at Isangila she could carry as much 
cargo as forty carriers. 
Mr. Comber now felt that the Congo Mission in its 
broader intentions and wider programme was “getting 
under weigh ; ” that soon their stations would become 
something more than mere depots. The urgent need, 
however, he continually felt was “ more men, more 
men.” He wondered why it was so difficult amongst 
the thousands of earnest Christian young men in 
London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and 
other towns, to find six suitable volunteers. “ Six 
men, forsooth ! Why, as Bentley says, ^ If it were a 
gold mine we had discovered, it would be very easy 
to find men ready to come to Africa.’ ” 
About this time Mr. Grenfell visited England to 
superintend the building of the steamer the Peace^ 
required for use on the Upper Congo/ above Stanley 
Pool, which steamer had been most generously pre- 
sented to the Society, with provision for its mainten- 
ance, by Mr. Arthington. 
