The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-08

ihofuihate lnqdlsitiveness is unfettered
ey any conventional delicacy. The frat
one ever spoke to stuck his head Ia The
cabin, and wanted to know where was
iromg Was America big place
Were my father and mother there
what did they do for living7 Was j
marriedI Wasn't / "co'tinF9" VIII,
wasn'tl? How old was I, and so ON, oSS
allnn,tuu', until it wound up-+hnd [ nt
old coat, hat, shirt, handkerchief knife
or piece OF chewing tobacco to give ilim {
NO Hrooman ever asks for pantalcons
ana think they begin to chew tobacco
when about 4 years old. l will have
NOR, more to It'll of the gentry further on
Ihe Taaso of the blue marks on theiI
noses Is, however, curious enough 10 be
recorded here. 1t seems that la the time
when the slave trade flourlshed, the
Kroos were as useful watermen as now
The slayere would, therefore, never pur.
chase one, or only did SO to set him nj
liberty, fearing to incur the hostility O,
she tribe, and the Kroos adopted the
blue mark az sign Of their nationality
which always protected them from pur.
chase by the white men. They are very
proud OF having never been slaves, and
frequently twit the Liberians with the
TACT, when quarrel occurs. About Q
O'Clock onthe morning Of Our arrival, q
large row boat, manned by eight Kroo-
men, pulled out with the harbormaster
and emigration commissioner, who came
aboard. They being
THE FIRST AMERICo- -LIBERIANs
that we had seen, were watched with
much interest. The harbormastcr ia n
young man, quadrCon, and was attired
in a dark blue coat, brilliant with tar
nished gold shoulder straps and trim
mings and buttons, while his head was
ornamented with white cork hat, from
the back of which depended q 'pugaree''
Ia scarf or veil of white cloth worn
around the hat, and much affected by the
bloods of the tropics.) The rest of his
dress was that of an ordinary civilian.
The commissioner is also acting Secre-
tary of State. He is about the same
color MS his companion, bu. taller and
apparently several years Older; and was
made very sick by the swell. The ap.
pearance of these two we'll dressed and
intelligent specimens of tho inhabitants
of the "Black Republic" was q great
comfort to the emigrants, giving them
assurance that there were at least some
clothed and civilized beings ashore
Just here
A SURPRISING DISCOVERY
was made. 1t was found, from the state
| ments OF the visitors, that che Liberisr
government had received no notification
whatever of the departure of the emf
grants, or of any of the proceedings oi
the Liberian Exodus Association, or the
Steamship Association. Nothing was
known in Monrovia of the emigration
except what had been gathered from,
stray copies of and extracts from the
Ne,cs and Courier. This was not encour.
aging news to begin with, by any means
another .9iscevcFy was aleo made. vhict,
tended still further to lower our opinion
of British steamship captains. This was
that the commander of the steamer
which had towed US mad quietly dropped
us about three miles further out to sea
than we should have been, leaving lis
anchored probably four miles from the
Cape. Capt. Holmes having never visit
ed tfis port before was to a certain de-
gree ut the Englishman's mercy, and had
accepted = his statement that we were on
the usual anchorage as true, whereas it
was totally false. The wishes for a pros
porous voyage for the Britisher were not
very fervent after that About 10 O'Clock
several of US went ashore in the herbor-
masters boat. On the way we passed e
small schooner, anchored just off the
head of the Cape, bearing the name Il.
Lincoln, and were informed that she was
q Liberian craft owned in Monrovia.
We also learned that the dense green
foliage which covered the Cape was the
| coffee tree, the hill being coffee planta-
ton belonging to the estate of ex-Presi-
dent Roberts. A German bark also at
anchor composed the remainder Of the
shipping in the roadstead. We pulled
over the Der with TO t, oubie, the surf
being light. Now re were inside the
Cape, and on the Mesurado River, which
here is about half q mile wide. On the
left the beach stretches away, with a
back from it. On the right bit OF
white beach comes out, and behind it is
small extent of Hat land, lying between
the foot of the hill and the water.
Among the trees and bushes OF this little
plain are to be seen the Latch houses
composing the village where the Kroos
live, while on the beach are generally o
few sleek looking little cattle, Kroo men
and ~onse.:, end g number of canoes, the
latter drawn out of the water and resting
bottom up a little further up past this
beach the green trees and wild India
rubber vines again come down to the
water, which here is placid and clear,
bending over and almost sweeping it.
Under the roots of the trees the water
has worn away the soil, leaving the red
dish looking stones bare. Some of these
trees are valuable, among them being
cam wood. Past this, and few yards
further up, the water runs in again, form
ing shallow little bay, and we see
THE TOWN oF MoNRovIA,
looking picturesque and pretty, strag-
Cling up the hills, ahdS the scattering
houses only halfseen through trees and
undefgrowth. Along the Waterside are
Few large s;5ao buildings, apparently ;
warehouses;. In the shallow water is
moored cutter of probably twehty tons,
bearing the n.-nae of the "Entefprise.' %
But her hull gapes in unseemly seams,
her mast looks dry and decayed, and q
few ropes hang rotting about her. She
is secured by rusty chain to the de-
cayed and sr'r Ken stern of Il craft of
about her oN.n size, the remainder of
which is out of sight. Another similar
craft lies Just above anchored by another
rusty chain. On the shore are one or
two large T0w boats Bottom Up, aii0::i.iie eIT
lies half in and half out of the water,
and on another, mounted on trestles,
black man is sleepily hammering. An
/ iron wharf runs out from one landing,
and from another is built one of stone
both with weeds and grass growing over
and about them. There is hardly o
sound of life, and we see no moving
thing except COW or two. few Kroo