-^ The Founding of Liberia 



Cess or Poor River, a district, oddly enough, which some years 

 later, through the temporary lapse of power on the part of 

 the Liberian Government, was to become the headquarters of 

 Theodore Canot's slave trade. He also bought land round 

 the promontory of Cape Mount, where powerful Spanish slave- 

 trading stations were established. This was done by a treaty 

 signed on April 12th, 1826, to which was attached a condition 



48. " VAI town" ox MKSUKADO J.ACiOOX, NKAKLV OPPOSITE MONROVIA, ON' !:. A 

 FAMOUS LOCALITY FOR SHIPPING SLAVES 



by the natives that the said Cape Mount territory should riever 

 be sold by the Liberians to any foreigners. On October nth, 

 1826, the Mamba chiefs, Will, Tom, and Peter Harris, sold or 

 ceded to the Liberian colony the territory about the Junk 

 River and that which lies between the rivers Dukwia and 

 Farmington.^ On October 17th in the same year, the "king," 



1 At the mouth of the Junk Kiverjin 1827 was founded the town of Marshall, 

 named after the Chief Justice of the United States. 



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