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intendent — leaving his pupils — made his appearance, 
and in the kindest manner proffered his services to show 
us anything worthy of notice in his neighhourhood. 
In the course of a long w'alk through the surround- 
ing woods, he explained many interesting features in the 
natural history of the country, as well as the more 
important ones of the social and moral condition of the 
natives. 
His own story was one, indeed, illustrative of that 
perfect benevolence and self denial, which may even yet 
be found occasionally in fallen man. He was a mis- 
sionary from the United States, descended from a highly 
respectable family, of English extraction, that had — only 
a generation previously — settled in one of the southern 
States. He had always been opposed to slavery in any 
shape, and being truly concerned for the welfare of the 
African in his native wilds, becoming on his father’s 
demise proprietor of the estate and negroes, he resolved 
on liberating the latter ; and in order that they might 
“ sit down ” in the country from whence they were de- 
scended, a useful example to those whom they might be 
located near, he sold the property, paid the expenses of 
the passage and maintenance of his father’s slaves, 
and had settled near Cape Palmas. His generous 
disposition would not allow him to breathe a syllable on 
the subject of the ingratitude of those for whom he had 
sacrificed all ; but enough was elicited to show that many 
of his brightest hopes had been disappointed. He had 
a school, containing forty or fifty youths, children of 
