92 THE AFRICAN TRADER,

my father, and while I on shore trying to learn
about my moder, the ship sail away, and no more
come back. Jno hear about my moder, and have
no money, so I ship on board merchant vessel, and
after sailing in her along the coast for some time I
go on board another, and then I again go on board
man-of-war. At last I get back to Sierra Leone,
and fall very sick, and sent to hospital, then a good
missionary come to me and I tell him what my
fader had said, and he ask me if I think I going to
heaven, and then he tell me more about the right
way, and pray with me. And now I find Jesus as
my own Saviour and Friend, and love Him, and
wish to serve Him, and obey Him. Then the wish
came into my heart to preach the gospel to my
countrymen, but I, still poor and very ignorant,
and I thought if I could make two or three voyages
and save money, I would go to England and study
there, and be better able to declare the glad tidings
of salvation, and that the people would more wil-
lingly listen to me.

It was on the second trip I made that the vessel
T was in was wrecked not far from the mouth of
the Bonny, and I was making my way with some
of those who had escaped with me to Sierra Leone