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kindly received by the natives , who had not yet forgotten 

 me and were much enjoyed to see me again. About medio 

 December I returned with three Vey-boys and my okl 

 Liberian huntsman Jackson Demery to Monrovia and pre- 

 pared for my removal to Schieffelinsville on the Junk River, 

 where Mr. Stampfli meanwhile had hired a small Liberian 

 farming house. As our outfit was very voluminous , I went 

 to Schieffelinsville by sea with two sailing boats , entered 

 near Marshall (a small Liberian settlement) the Junk River 

 and reached , along this river, safely the place of my 

 destination. 



Schieffelinsville is a settlement of Americo-Liberians , most 

 of which are coffee-faruiers. The houses are surrounded by 

 farms and hidden by plum- , orange- and other fruit-trees 

 and plantain-bushes , and are therefore scattered over a wide 

 area, so that hardly more than half a dozen can be seen 

 at once. It lays on the back and the northern slope of a 

 moderate elevation , which separates the Junk River from 

 the sea and must be considered as the continuation of the 

 promontory which forms the Cape Messurado. The environs 

 of Schieffelinsville are in a high degree favorable for bird- 

 shooting, as there is a mixtum compositum of high forest, 

 brushwood , coffee- and cassava-farms , grassy savannas with 

 small bosquets, hills and valleys, and all that bordered 

 on one side by the sandy beach , on the other by the Junk 

 River with its extensive mangrove-swamps. The Junk River 

 runs in parallel line with the beach and is separated from 

 the latter by the already mentioned hilly range. It is tole- 

 rably deep and navigable, even for large rowing boats, 

 from off its mouth up to the so-called Old Field , a very 

 extensive savanna , which separates it from the Messurado 

 River. The Junk River has two very important tributaries : 

 the Du Queah ^) and the Farmington River. Both those 

 rivers come far down from the interior and drain a vast 



1) Du = river, Queah = the name of a tribe of natives, inhabiting this part 

 of the country. 



Notes from tlae Leyden Museum, Vol. X. 



