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"You geeps dot said Fritz, "and den
You will know
You owes me dot money" Says Hans
Dot ish so:
Dotmakes meremember haf dot to bay,
Und prings you der note and der mon
ey some day"
A month had expired when Hans, as
agreed.
Paid back the amount, and from debt he
was freed,
Says Fritz, Now, dot settles u.s." Hans
replies. :" Yaw;
Now who dakes dot baper accordings by
law?"
"I geeps. dot now, aind'tit?" says Fritz
"den you see
Ialways renemb bers you bald dot to me-"
Says Hans; "Dot ish SO; it vos now
shust so blain
Dot knows vot to do ven porrows
again."
Prom the New American Cyclopedia.
LIBERIA, republic of American
negroes on the W. coast of Africa,
extending S. E. along the coast from
the British colony of Sierra Leone
about 500 m. to the San Pedro river,
with an average breadth of so M,
between lat. A. 2O' and. 70 20N N,
long. 60 so, and 10 4oN w; area,
about $4,000 SO. m. 1t is divided
into counties: Mesurado, Bassa, ST.
nou, and Cape Palmas. The capital
and largest town is Monrovia, sea-
port on Cape Mesurado, with about
1000 inhabitants. The other towns
are Marshall, Edna, Grand Bassa,
and GreenYille on the coast, and Cald-
well, Louisiana, Millsburg, Bexley,
and Cresson in the interior. The
general line of the coast is from N.
w. to S. E. There are several inlets
and harbors at Cape Mount, Cape
Mesurado, Cape Palmas. and Bassa
Cove. There are many rivers, Of
which the principal is the st. Paul,
which enters the ocean at Cape Mesu-
rado. LIS about half a mile wide,
and at low tide has 7 feet Of water
on the bar at its mouth. It is navi-
gable only about Is miles from the
sea. The other largest rivers are the
st. John, which empties at Bassa
Cove; the Junk river, which runs
between the st. Paul and the st.
John; Cape Mount river, which flows
into the sea at Cape Mount; and the
Grand Sesters. E. of the st. John,
which has IA feet of water over the
bar at its mouth. The land on the
coast is generally low and sandy, ex
cept near the capes, which are ele-
waited, and in the S. E., where the
shore is bold and rocky. From the
coast the land gradually rises, until
at the distance of 80 miles inland it
swells into forest-covered hills, AMI
in the remoter interior into mountain
ridges divided by fertile valleys. The
soil is generally good, though there
is some poor land. 1t is of yellow
ish color, and tinges the rivers which
flow through it. There is little swamp
land, the country being almost uni
versally broken and rocky or gray
ely. The climate is that common to
regions near the equator. There are
two seasons, the wet and the dry.
The former begins with June and
ends with October. Rain falls during
the greater part of this season, though
not without intervals of clear skies
and successive days of fine weather,
especially in July and August. In
the dry season rain is rare, though
there are occasional showers. The
average heat of the year in Monrovia
is 900 F., that Of the rainy season
being 760 and of The dry $40. The
mercury seldom rises above 900 in
the shade, and never falls below 600;
the daily variation seldom exceeds
lOo. June is the coolest month, and
January the hottest During the hot
test months, January, February, and
March, the heat is mitigated by the
constant winds, the land breeze blow
ing from midnight until near midday,
and the sea breeze from midday until
near midnight. The climate both on
the coast and in the interior is deadly
to the white man, and though less
fatal is still formidable to the black
man born and reared in temperate
regions. Strangers soon after their
arrival are attacked with afever call
ed acclimating, which seems to be
caused not by the heat, but by mias-
mata of the origin and character of
which little is known. This sickness
indicates its approach by headache,
pains in the back. loss of appetite,
and more or less gastric arrangement,
and rapidly develops into bilious re-
mittent fever. This sometimes yields
to mild medical treatment, and the
patient is then prepared to endure |
ordinary exposure to the climate.
Generally, however, the disease as
sumes the tertiary or other form of
intermittent fever, accompanied by
bilious vomiting, dull expression of
the eye, and in the febrile paroxysms
intense headache and deliriam. This
is the African fever, and is frequent
y fatal. To the white man there is
no acclimation in Liberia; the first
attack of the fever does not secure
him from subsequent attacks. To the
natives the climate is not unfayora-
BILE; they are robust and have few
diseases. and many of them live to a
great age.
Iron ore abounds in Liberia, and 1t
is said that copper and other metals
exist in the interior of the country.
The vegetables are almost endless in
their variety. The most important
of the native trees are rosewood, teak,
mahogany, hickory, poplar, birthstone
wood $50 called from its yellow color, I
sassa wood, and many others valuable
in ship building and cabinet work.
Camwood and other dyewoods, ebony, |
the acacia which yields gum Arabic, |
and the copal tree are found. There
are several varieties of palm. all |