[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 INTRODUCTION 107/154
Occupied in this delightful work, they covet not other employments, nor other company, and desire no other earthly abode than their own little hill-embosomed, sea-girt missionary home. [Footnote B: Pronounced Maynuh.] There are a thousand people belonging to the church at this station, each of whom, the missionaries see once every month.
A day school has been lately established, and one hundred children are already in attendance.
After dinner we walked out accompanied by the missionaries to enjoy the beautiful sunset.
It is one of the few _harmless_ luxuries of a West India climate, to go forth after the heat of the day is spent and the sun is sinking in the sea, and enjoy the refreshing coolness of the air.
The ocean stretched before us, motionless after the turmoil of the day, like a child which has rocked itself asleep, yet indicating by its mighty breathings as it heaved along the beach, that it only slumbered.
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