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of the colonists were obliged to flee for their lives to Edina. 

 But another Basa chief, Bob Gray, was faithful to his engage- 

 ments towards the Liberian Government. He assisted the 

 settlers of Edina to repel the people of Joe Harris, and even to 

 frighten the latter into suing for peace. 



Joe Harris himself rebuilt the Quaker village on a site 

 farther to the north on the St. John's River, where it 

 received the name of Basa Cove. This incident of the fight 

 at Grand Basa is also referred to elsewhere in describing 

 the adventures of the slaver Theodore Canot. Whilst the 

 Basa country was in this disturbed state, " Governor " Finley, 

 of the Mississippi Colonisation Society of Sino, insisted on 

 going ashore, no doubt to find out what was going on. The 

 Governor had been on a cruise along the coast for his health, 

 and had unsuspectingly accepted the hospitality of Canot on 

 his fast sailing ship. But the unfortunate man soon after 

 landing was killed on the shore. Canot stated that he 

 co-operated with the Liberians in attacking and punishing Joe 

 Harris and his people, though he gives a different version of 

 the results of the operations, making out that the Liberians 

 lost their guns and did not conduct themselves with anything 

 approaching valour. But soon following on these events appeared 

 the warlike E.lijah Johnson, with one hundred and twenty militia, 

 from Monrovia, who by his capture of one of the principal Basa 

 villages brought Joe Harris to reason. 



In 1835 lands were bought from the natives along the coast, 

 which carried the Liberian dominions as far east as the Sino 

 River, and secured, amongst other important points, the mouth 

 of the Sanguin River. 



The successor as principal agent to the Rev. John B. 

 Pinney was Dr. Skinner, whose appearance in Liberia was very 

 fleeting. He came out in 1835, and returned at the end of 



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