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labourers, and yet there is no cultivation on an enlarged 
scale. Much diligence is used to convert and educate the 
“liberated Africans ;” but without any beneficial influence 
on the neighbouring tribes. This is not very satisfactory, 
and shows that if it was intended to extend civilization to 
these parts, great faults must have been committed ; and also 
proves that the Africans are not inclined to follow a good 
example. The liberated Africans, on their arrival at Sierra 
Leone, are apprenticed with a planter till their twentieth 
year; after that, a piece of land is apportioned to them, from 
which they raise a scanty maintenance. On the whole, their 
villages appeared to me, as far as I saw them, clean and 
cheerful (of course cum grano salis). But the total want of . 
hospitality, for we often found it impossible to get anything - 
to eat, was painful. . 
During the few days that we spent here, the weather was 
mostly fine: the sky generally bright, with a hot sun, though 
sometimes clouded: towards evening tornadoes occurred, 
bringing frequently several hours’ rain. After having abun- 
dantly enjoyed the noise of African tongues and the offen- 
sive exhalations of their persons, especially on Thursday, 
when the Kroomen and negroes were engaged, we left Free 
Town on Friday, July 2, about noon. Taking the “ Soudan” 
in tow, we made but slow progress, and only got to Mon- 
rovia,* on Monday, July 5, and cast anchor in the bay. 
The few hours which I devoted to a walk towards the head 
of Cape Mesurado, taught me, that the vegetation is very 
similar to that of Sierra Leone. 
grew abundantly; and the fruit called pomegranate by Don, 
occurred sparingly. A Poivrea, with beautiful red flowers, 
seems new. Cassia occidentalis, Borreria Kohautiana, and 
Sarcocephalus esculentus — 
an herbaceous Phyllanthus grew in abundance. Around the - 
dwellings Coffee-trees had been planted, but left to grow 
too freely ; Limes, Figs, Curcas, Guavas, Ananas, Anona - 
muricata and also Cytisus Cajan and Arrow-root were 
* Monrovia is the capital of the American colony of Liberia.—(H. D. — 
Trotter). 
