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barkation can be efi-ected with little or no danger. One of 

 the easiest landing-places, which, with the construction of break- 

 waters, might be made a good port, is Monrovia, the capital, 

 on Cape Mesurado. Monrovia is only ten days' journey from 

 Southampton or Liverpool by the thirteen-knots-an-hour steamers 

 of the English and German lines which once or twice in every 

 month make a direct run from England to Liberia. 



9. SURF OFF THE LIBERIAN COAST 



As a sovereign State, Liberia — " the Land of the Free "— 

 has existed since 1847, ^t which date it received formal 

 recognition as an independent Negro Republic from England, 

 France, and Prussia. The governing class in this country con- 

 sists of approximately twelve thousand Negroes and Mulattos 

 of American origin, to whom may be added, as the remainder 

 of the Christian voting community, about thirty thousand 

 "civilised" Liberians of local origin. The indigenous uncivilised 



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