ABSTRACT
WE closed the year 1849 by visiting Bonny, to see what couldbe done about founding mission stations in that country, a3 King Peppel seemed to desire. Here ,ve may advert to the loss of our mate, Sanluel ~I'Ewan, who, a short time previously, had left the service of the mission to return home. He had done so when at Fernando Po with the schooner, ,vith the captain's consent indeed, but without our kno,,"'ledge. We all were sorry to lose him, for he was a very worthy, pious young man; and we blamed the captain for giving hiIn his discharge, without affording us an opportunity of dissua.ding him froln his purpose. It was satisfactory that he wrote, assuring Iue he had no complaint to make of anyone j but he gave no reason for the step he took, except his anxiety to see his widowed and beloved nlother. There was, however, a tone of spiritual depression about his letter, which, with certain view~ he had expressed to myself, his tender feelings and gentle disposition, indicated that seafaring duties were not just then congenial to his state of nlind. With great sorrow we heard afterwards that he never reached home alive. He suffered from a severe accident on board the vessel in \vhich he had shipped for England; it was lost on the coast of Wales; and he died before reaching shore.
