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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 49.

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BONACCA, BAY ISLANDS.

By Wm. Evans

TRANQUILLA.— We are about in the middle of our third year here. The first year we had two students; the second, five; and now there are twelve.
Brother Richard Wood assisted the boys with material, so they have now erected a building for themselves. The girls have one, and we have one for our family, in which the recitations are held. Good health and good cheer prevail. Things look bright ahead. One of our last year's boys is teaching at Ruatan this year. We expect him back to school soon.
We have finished our first four months' feast of pineapples, from May to September, from our own planting. The bananas we are not able to use in the family are fed to the cattle, as we have seven head. Our cocoanuts, mangoes, oranges, and many of our native fruits are not bearing yet, nor will they for a few years. About a hundred rubber tree seeds planted last year are doing finely. Some of them have reached a height of about eight feet. This year the thousand seeds planted failed to grow, having become too dry before planting. We do not ask any one to come to our school, but we do ask the Lord to send us such as will receive benefit; and we believe He has.    WM. EVANS.