We entered our new and commodious residence in October, and consecrated it to God, by the observance of the Lord's Supper, the friends from Duke Town joining us in the sacred ordinance. Thankful for so good a dwelling, beautifully situated, we resolved not to give it up to the undisturbed possession of rats and ants for three months, as we had been obliged to do the year before with the Duke Town mission-house. I say beautifully situated for that country, being on a healthy elevation overlooking the town, and with an extensive prospect. Duke Town house, and Old Town were so full in view, that we arranged a code of signals by which to communicate with each other; and in the far distance appeared a grand range of mountains, from the Camaroons, about eighty miles south-east, and thirteen thousand feet high, by the Rumby and Qua, rugged but much less elevated, up to nameless peaks in the north-east, about seventy or eighty miles distant. Even Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, was occasionally visible due south, about a hundred and twenty miles away.

The time had arrived when we behoved to consider the question of removing from Calabar to Fernando Po during the sickly season. The conviction was growing in some of our minds that this step was not so necessary as had at first been supposed; while obviously it was quite impracticable, consistently with the due maintenance of our mission.