
          my loss would be less felt.
 I hope too I might be of some service
 to my Missionary brethern and that
 would be worth some risk.


 Could I go in a National vessel,
 touch only at Liberia without
 spending a night on shore, take
 in there from 4 to 6 acclimated
 assistants, land at the Gaboon,
 proceed immediately towards the
 height of land in the bend of
 the Niger, taking with me two or
 three missionary pupils from the
 interior tribes as guides, interpreters
 & pupils, going only so far as
 I could & keep up my line of
 communications with my base of
 operations at the Gaboon I think
 much might be accomplished
 without too much exposure. Some
 sable [Peter Kien?] too might be
 trained in the while to carry on
 the exploration in that pestiferous
        