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missionary. About the same time efforts were made at 
Cape Gracias a Dios, but were doomed to disappoint¬ 
ment in consequence of a change in the political rela¬ 
tions of that part of the country, when it was thought 
advisable that the missionaries should be withdrawn, 
—the more so as it then seemed likely that many of 
the Indians would also remove. 
The next point occupied was Wounta Haulover, 
since called Ephrata. It is near the coast, and has 
around it a relatively large population of Indians. 
The most recently established station is that at Tas- 
bapaouni, now called Bethany, on the Pearl Cay 
Lagoon. 
According to the last returns (June, 1868) there 
are now six stations, permanently occupied by seven 
married missionaries, who have the stated charge of be¬ 
tween 700 and 800 persons, as well as occasional 
hearers. Six day-schools are in operation, besides a 
training institution for boys, who, it is hoped, may 
be made useful as teachers. 
With this prelude, I will now return to my com¬ 
panions, and join them in making the best of the way 
along the solitary straggling street of Blewfields to the 
‘•Manse,” which is built as nearly as possible in the 
middle of the town. 
The house was decidedly inferior to that of the 
King, or rather that of Dr. Green; nevertheless, it 
was quite as substantially built, and furnished with 
some regard to comfort, although its fittings could not 
by any stretch of the imagination be called extrava¬ 
gant. But if the building was inferior to that of the 
