Through the courtesy of the ship keepers, Elder Ings was permitted to send packages of tracts and papers free to eighty of the principal ports of the “Peninsular and Oriental Steam Ship Company,” in South Africa, East and West Indies, Central America, and the Bay Islands. It was through the influence of the reading matter thus sent, that the interest was first awakened in the island of Demarara. This information we received through letters from the island. GSAM 419.1