This chapter will conclude our second campaign in Calabar, and end with our return to England for the recovery of health. What has become of Mr. Chisholm; we have heard nothing of him this long time? The question so easily put is not easily answered. While I was at home in 1848, 9, he dissolved his connection with the mission with consent of the brethren, and settled in Fernando Po to work for himself, expecting to better his circumstances. I found him there on my return from Britain, and at his own desire settled accounts with him. We knew that, whether as house or ship carpenter, he could get good work and wages at Clarence if he minded his business, and might be more likely to mind it there than he had been with us.

In the spring of 1851 King Eyo sent for him to come and work at putting up a new house. He left Clarence in a small coasting vessel with that object in view, and has never been heard of since. Whether it was upset in a squall, or got into the shallows of the Rio del Rey, between Calabar and Camaroons, where all on board would be seized by the natives, and held or sold as slaves, or was becalmed, and drifted away with the current southwards, and out into the wide ocean, is a matter of conjecture. In these several ways boats and crews were often lost.