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philanthropist of Leeds, Mr. Robert Arthington (after whom 

 a settlement on the St. Paul's River has been named). Moreover, 

 throughout Liberia an extraordinary affection and reverence grew 

 up during these years for Queen Victoria. This feeling dated 

 possibly from the journey of President Roberts to England in 

 1 849 ; but the late Queen had often testified her interest in 

 West African Negroes by the adoption or even the bestowal 

 of her godmothership on Negro girls, one or two of whom 

 afterwards settled in Liberia with their husbands. Liberian 

 ladies, the wives of such statesmen who occasionally travelled 

 to England on business, were not infrequently presented to the 

 Queen, and brought away memorials of her in the shape of 

 photographs and kindly speeches, the result of which was a 

 kind of cult for the Queen of Great Britain which the present 

 writer found still lingering on his visit to Liberia in the 

 summer of 1904. Her picture was to be seen almost wherever 

 a Liberian settlement existed. 



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