Monday 12*” april - '97

This am. about 3 o'clock Bros. Morgan & Finock came &
woke me up & told me that Bro. Popel had passed away &
we consulted about aplace to bury him & I advised them
to bury him in the state cemetery. I sold Morrison's
Gun te Mr. Ohlensehleiger Chef B. Keeper of the Duteh
House Gun & Crgs for 130°° fr. I also seld my pistol
etg's & belt for 125°° frs. but have not ree'd pay yet
for the Latter. Dr. Lagris paid me for the paint & tar
this peme At 3:00 clock p.m. there was service at the
house of Mr. Popel led by Mr. Bently, songs were sung &
prayer was offered by Mr. Morgan. A large crowd was
there & many could not get into the house. The corps
was followed by a large crowd of whites & colored people
to the cemetery & as we were nearing the grave the Acra
& Sierra Leone men began singing safe in the Arms of
Jesus safe on his gentle breast &c. The grave is ina
very pretty place in the cemetery - as you approach the
cemetery you walk between two rows of Bannastalks and

on the left hand side as you go in under a nice tree &
close by the way is the grave of Bro. Pepel the first
missionary buried in Tumba. Just now about 8:00 o'clock
Ppeme Mr. Bentley came in to tell me good bye. He is a
good man, & I like him ever so much. He will travel 1
hour & ten minutes when he will arrive at the camp where
the boys have gone on before. It is a nice bright moon-
light night & a storm has just pass around us.

Tuesday April 13th 1897
Not much done today did a little work on the house.
Attended to some little business.

Wednesday April 14 - 1897

Work was varied - about the same as yesterday. Our
heavenly Father cared for me well. I led the meeting
for the native boys. I net able to speak the language,
got Silas of A.B.M.U. to do the reading & preaching.
We had a very nice meeting for all it was my first.

Thursday April 15, 1897
Again another day with little accomplished.

Friday April 16, 1897

I went to the Duteh House & carried my pistol & sold it -
rec's pay for rifle wrote some tickets & copied a Bill

in French & made out a bill, that is the calculations.
