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plantain-cider in “ Lake Regions of Central Africa” 
(ii. 287). The fruit contains sugar, gum, and 
acids (malic and gallic) ; the rind, which is easily 
detached when ripe, stains cloth with ruddy grey 
rusty colour, by its tannin, gallic, and acetic 
acids. 
The Baraka Mission has had several out-sta¬ 
tions. One was at a ruined village of Fa/z, which 
we shall presently pass on the right bank of the 
river. The second was at Ikoi, a hamlet distant 
about fifteen (not twenty-five) miles, upon a creek 
of the same name, which enters the Gaboon 
behind Point Ovindo, and almost opposite Konig 
Island. A third is at Anenge-nenge, vulgo 
Inenge-nenge,—“ nenge” in Mpongwe, and anenge 
in Bakele, meaning island,—situated forty (not 
100) miles up the main stream ; here a native 
teacher still resides. The Baraka school now 
(1862) numbers thirty scholars, and there are 
twelve to fifteen communicants. The missionaries 
are our white “ labourers; ” but two of them, the 
Revs. Jacob Best and A. Bushnell, are absent in 
the United States for the benefit of their health. 
My first visit to the Rev. William Walker 
made me regret my precipitate trip to Mbata: he 
told me what I now knew, that it was the wrong 
line, and that I should have run two or three 
days up the Rembwe, the first large influent on 
the southern bank of the Gaboon. He had come 
