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-ofF’ — Foulahs at war with the Fish- 
men — Senegal larkheel — Naturalist shoots a black boy by mistake, 
or danger of “ hopping the twig” — ^'Frees and plants — Chauielions 
— 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 missionar}' — Sun-birds — Migratory black 
ants — Their destructiveness — Geology — Superstitious dread of the 
natives against planting Cocoa-nut trees — Meteorology. 
July 9. — The ‘ Wilberforce/ in the meantime having 
soon exhausted her fuel, anchored to-day off the town of 
Edina, an affiliation of the colony of Liberia, which is 
rapidly advancing along the coast. At this place, how- 
ever, there were already jealousies, which induced some 
to wish to abandon the parent state, and put them- 
selves under the British flag. 
The inhabitants were very willing to supply us with 
wood, at the rate of two and a half dollars the chord ; but 
this would have involved the necessity of crossing the 
