y
word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared
before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and
the glory of thy people Israel"?

FOOTNOTES:

[101] Savage Africa, p. 25.

[102] Precis sur l'Etablissement des Colonies de Sierra Leona et de
Boulama, etc. Par C.B. Wadstroem, pp. 3-28.

[103] Wadstroem Essay on Colonization, p. 220.

[104] This led to the sending of 119 whites, along with a governor, as
counsellors, physicians, soldiers, clerks, overseers, artificers,
settlers, and servants. Of this company 57 died within the year, 22
returned, and 40 remained. See Wadstroem, pp. 121, _sq._

[105] See Livingstone's Zambesi, pp. 633, 634.

CHAPTER X.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

LIBERIA.--ITS LOCATION.--EXTENT.--RIVERS AND
MOUNTAINS.--HISTORY OF THE FIRST COLONY.--THE NOBLE MEN WHO
LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC.--NATIVE
TRIBES.--TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT INTO THE VEI
LANGUAGE.--THE BEGINNING AND TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS
TO LIBERIA.--HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS ON THE
FIELD.--A MISSIONARY REPUBLIC OF NEGROES.--TESTIMONY OF
OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AS TO THE EFFICIENCY OF THE
REPUBLIC IN SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE-TRADE.--THE WORK OF THE
FUTURE.

That section of country on the West Coast of Africa known as Liberia,
extending from Cape Palmas to Cape Mount, is about three hundred miles
coastwise. Along this line there are six colonies of Colored people,
the majority of the original settlers being from the United States.
The settlements are Cape Palmas, Cape Mesurado, Cape Mount, River
Junk, Basa, and Sinon. The distance between them varies from
thirty-five to one hundred miles, and the only means of communication
is the coast-vessels. Cape Palmas, though we include it under the
general title of Liberia, was founded by a company of intelligent
Colored people from Maryland. This movement was started by the
indefatigable J.H.B. Latrobe and Mr. Harper of the Maryland
Colonization Society. This society purchased at Cape Palmas a
territory of about twenty square miles, in which there was at that
time--more than a half-century ago--a population of about four
thousand souls. Within two years from the time of the first purchase,
this enterprising society held deeds from friendly proprietors for
eight hundred square miles, embracing the dominions of nine kings, who
bound themselves to the