BAHIA

[s. 79] : A city of Brazil, South America, on All Saints Bay, 800 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Population, about 200,000, chiefly Portuguese; religion, Roman Catholic, the city being the seat of an archbishop. It is a mi ion station of the CA, of which no statistics are available; of the PN, which commenced operations here in 1871 and has 4 mi ionaries and 1 native worker, men and women, and 1 common school. It is also a station of the SBC, opened There are now 3 mi ionaries and 15 in 1882. native workers, men and women, with 27 outstations and 516 church members. 79