Arrival of the New Missionaries.
REV. FLOYD SNELSON.
I received the letters, telling of the new missionaries on the way to our mission, with great joy. I left home late last Thursday afternoon for this place to meet them. We came on very well until Friday night about ten o’clock, at which time we were caught in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As I had not been here since our first arrival, there were many things to look after.
Just as I was finishing up last night, the steamer came in, bringing them. I got out to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent nearly an hour with them. I am very favorably impressed with the first view of my new co-workers, and hope now to be able to carry on the work to greater success and with more ease.
Next morning they came ashore, and expressed themselves as favorably surprised at the appearance of the place and people. On the 26th, we hope to leave early for Good Hope.
Freetown, Sierra Leone,
March 25th, 1878.