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

by any conventional delicacy. The first
one I ever spoke to stuck his head Id the
cabin, and wanted to khoW where was !
from9 Was America big place !
Were my father and mother there !
What did they do for living3 Was !
married? Wasn't 1 "co'tin'f" Why
wasn't I? How old was l, and SO on, %
intfnituu,, until it wound up-had ! an
old coat, hat, shirt, handkerchief, kniis
or piece Of chewing tobacco to give nina
No Krooman ever asks for pantalcchs,
and think they begin to chew tobacco
when about 4 years old. / will have
more TO tell of the gentry further on.
The catisp of the blue marks on their
noses is, however, curious enough 70 be
recorded here. 1t seems that Ia the time
when the slave trade aourished, the
Kroos were as useful watermen as now:
The slavers would, therefore, never put..
chase one, or only did so to set him at
liberty, fearing to incur the hostility q
the tribe, and the Kroos adopted the
blue mark as sign of their nationality,
which always protected them from pur-
chase by the white men. They are Sery
proud of having never been slaves, and
frequently twit the Liberians with the
fact, when quarrel occurs. About y
o'clock on the morning of our arrival, 0
large row boat, manned by eight Kroo-
men, pulled out with the harbormaster
and emigration commissioner, who came
aboard. They being ~
THE FIRST ERICo-LIBERIANsf
that we had seen, were watched With
much interest. The harbormaster IS q
young man, quadroon, and was attired
in 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 "pugaNe"
Ia scarf or veil of white cloth worn
around the hat, and much affected blythe
bloods of the tropics.) The rest of his
dress was that of an ordinary CIVILIAN.
The commissioner is also acting Se:re-
tary of State. He is about the SINE
color as his companion, but taller and
apparently several years older; and vas
made very sick by the swell. The PIP.
pearance of these two well dressed lRd
intelligent specimens of the inhabitants
of the "Black Republic" was a gsat
comfort to the emigrants, giving item
assurance that there were at least ssme
clothed and civilized beings ashbre.
Just here
A SURPRISING DISCOVERY Il
was made. 1t was found, from the stale
ments of the visitors, that the Liberan
government had received no notification
whatever of the departure of the eni.
grants, or of any of the proceedings sol
the Liberian Exodus Association, or the
Steamship Association. Nothing wa
known in Monrovia of the emigratiol
except what had been gathered fror
stray copies of and extracts from tn
Ne,cs and Courier. This was not encour
aging news to begin with, by any means
Another discovery was also made, whic
tended still further to lower our opinio
of British steamship captains. This wa
that the commander of the steame
which had towed US had quietly droppe'
us about three miles further out to Sc
than we should have been, leaving U
anchored probably four miles from tn
Cape. Capt. Holmes having never visit
ed this port before was to certain de
gree at the Englishman's mercy, and ha
accepted his statement that we were o
the usual anchorage as true, whereas
was totally false. The wishes for a pros
porous voyage for the Britisher were nc
very fervent after that. About 10 o'cloc
several OF us went ashore in the harbol
masters boat. On the way we passed
small schooner, anchored just off th
head of the Cape, bearing the name 4
Lincoln, and were informed that she wa
Liberian craft owned in Monrovis
We also learned that the dense gree
foliage which covered the Cape was tn
coffee tree, The hill being coffee planta
ton belonging to the estate of ex-Pres
dent Roberts. A German bark also
anchor composed the remainder Of th
shipping in the roadstead. We pulle
over the bar with no trouble, the sui
being light. Now we were inside tn
Cape, and on the Mesurado River, whic
here is about half mile wide. On tn
left the beach stretches away, with
landscape of wooded country extendin
back from it. On the right q bit
white beach comes out, and behind it
a small extent of fiat land, lying betwee
the foot of the Iill and the watel
Among the trees and bushes OF this littl
plain are to be seen the thatch house
composing the village where the Kroc
live, while on the beach are generally
few sleek looking little cattle, Kroo me
and women, and a number of canoes, tn
latter drawn out of the water and restin
bottom up. A little further up past thi
beach the green trees and wild India
rubber vines again come down to tn
water, which here is placid and clea
bending over and almost sweeping /
Under the roots of the trees the waite
has worn away the soil, leaving the rec
dish locking stones bare. Some of thes
trees are valuable, among them bein
cam wood. Past this, and a few yard
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, and the scatterin
houses only half seen through trees an
underground. Along the waterside ar
few large stone buildings, apparent
warehouses. In the shallow water
moored cutter of probably twenty tom
bearing the name of the Enterprise.
But her hull gapes N unseemly y seams
her mast looks dry ard decayed, and
few ropes hang rotting about her. Sh
is secured by a rusty chain to the dc
cayed and sunken stern of q craft
about her own size, the remainder {
which is out of sight. Another simila
craft lies Just above anchored by anothe
rusty chain. On the shore are one G
two large row boats bottom up, anothe
lies half in and half out of the wate
and on another, mounted on trestle!
a black man is sleepily hammering. A
iron wharf runs out from one landing
and from another is built one of stone
both with weeds and grass growing owe
and about them. There is hardly
sound of life, and We see no moyin
thing except cow or two, few kro