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on the condition of the colony— Missionary labours — Flight of locusts 
— Leave Sierra Leone — Arrival at Cape Mesurado Liberia, prospects 
of its advancement — Vegetation — Soil — Leewardly character of the 
vessels — Sinu River — Intermarriage of Fishmen and Blue-Barra 
people 68 — 91 
CHAPTER V. 
Visit Edina — Gran Bassa — ^ Black Will,’ King of Bassa — Dexterity of 
the Fishmen in the management of their canoes — Wooding — Huts 
of the natives — Grave of ^Jack-be-oft’* — Foulahs at war with the Fish- 
men — Senegal larkheel — Naturalist shoots a black boy by mistake, 
or danger of “ hopping the twig” — Trees and plants — Chameleons 
— Popular belief that the saliva of this reptile produces blindness — 
Pestilential swamps — Hammer-headed sharks — Cape Palmas — 
Procure fuel — ‘ Jack Smoke,’ Captain W. Allen’s old Kru servant, 
joins him — Appearance of the town and surrounding country— 
Dress of the natives — Missionary establishment — Interesting 
history of an American missionary — Sun-birds — Migratory black 
ants — Their destructiveness — Geology — Superstitious dread of the 
natives against planting Cocoa-nut trees — Meteorology. 92 — 112 
CHAPTER VI. 
The Grain Coast — Krumen and Fishmen, or Grebus — Peculiar charac- 
teristics — Mode of government — Religious observances — Diseases 
— Music— Curious tradition — Good and evil spirits — Marocho, or 
Kru Christmas— Marriages — Observances on the death of indivi- 
duals — Ceremony of drinking Sassa water” — Aggri beads found 
among the Krus — Supposed communication with the ancient 
Egyptians— Kru fondness for finery— No slaves exported from the 
Kru country— Animosities of Krus and Grebus — Emigration 
recommended — Sail from Cape Palmas — Dangerous situation of the 
‘ Wilberforce ’ — Bottomless pit — Bobsum Accra — Whale-boat 
swamped in landing — Sudden death of a liberated African — Several 
cases of fever — Fatal case — Arrival at Cape Coast— Governor 
M‘Lean’s desire to forward the views of the expedition — Appear- 
ance of Cape Coast— Governor M'Leau’s policy — Fanti aversion 
