Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,

BY STANFORD AND SWORDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

THE object of the writer in compiling this little volume, has been, to present in one view, the leading historical facts of the Mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Western Africa, with the Memoirs of those who have died in its service, and such information respecting the country and customs of the people, as might be interesting to the general reader. Most of the details have been collated from the journals of the missionaries, published in the "Spirit of Missions ;" and if the work be useful only in directing attention to that interesting and important periodical, it will not have been written in vain. That the Members of the Church are not, generally, as familiar with its