Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-10

girl with the LIberian Dag painted on
her forehead. Some Of the women, whose
Husbands or fathers work for Americans,
wear the United States Gag, hut nothing
osn Induce them 70 wear the British Gag,
a. they all hate Enghshmen ami viii have
nothing TO do with them. We use Ave
na,ions' money here-United States, En-
giish. Du'eh, French aud Llberian, and
0ccasionaliy n spanish gold coin.
"The country herU IL very broken and
Wild. The mountain above as Is rocky,
and only Inhabited by goats, deer and
other Wild animals. Monkeys are abun-
dant and play havoc WITH the gardens b.
low At nf2h,. Oar hill IL planted with
coffee trees, and our coffee is excellent.
IL f. picked, cleaned, roaste cooked ana
drank inside Of twenty -four hours. We
have fresh venisOn, chicken add nsh every
day, with rice, cassava, plantainS and
greens The eassava IL . tuher like
tho sweet potato In shape, add looks
and tastes Ike . Mixture OF bees-
wnx and plastec Of Paris. Pepper is put
into every thing eatabls, and very plentI-
full, too. Oar native boy, who tends
% roasting and pounding up
the csEee, was not satis-
ned until he had put a LIg handful Of pep
per into il, which was not discovered until
we tried to drink II. We Fave q new
coffee boy now. small watermelon O
foot long soils hOre foi q shilling, at two
pineapples as big rs your head sell for one
cent; bananas and plautains sell for ten
cents a bunch; mango plums, which sell
In New YORK for twenty-five cents each,
can be had here for one cent dozen All
these fruits grow wild, and the only charge
Is for the trouble OF getting them TO you.
Flowers ore most nbundnnt-magnolia
every where, and heliotrope Is used for
hedges, while lilies and passion flowers
are trod under foot so thick are they.
From my Office window can see ferns
twenty feet high, orange trees in all stages
of production from blossoms to fruit. The
toys use oranges TO play cricket with.
''Tbe bank Of our lnke-Pesc-is dotted
ell along with native towns, called BUSH
towns. Two houses make q town; each
town Of one hundred houses has King or
Governor. Sometimes a King has several
small towns. All the people are called
the Kings children, and dare not do any
thing without hi4 consent. One man who
wanted to see me Riout a tumor had TO
the King. The King sent me . MESSAGE
giving me authority TO do any thing
wished TO the man, and he would be re-
sponsiils for all costs. When at Monrovia,
IenrRged n Kroo boy at a salary OF TWEEN
ty.hve dollars . year TO attend the Office
and do such work as I require ,, hut he
was so lazy had to give him the grand
Lounce. He was too lazy to eat, and,
rather than see him starve, sent him
home, where somebody could feed him.
Ny new 10y is about twenty years old,
named Momo-Vey name for Mohammed
and he Is heir to one Of the Vey thrones
his father being an up-couniry King.
Mono wanted to learn English, 30 he ran
away from home and came to the mission,
and / took him In and adopted him. His
people came down with cloth and sheen.
and tried TO coax him Lack-no 70. His
elder brother ran away also, and has jus.
left on the ship Liberia for the United
States. BY the way, l have the only
United State Gag in Liberia, tie United
States Consul having none. The nsiksal
set DOL has opened with a fair attendance.
We have a plant here called 'boola,' and
bona by the natives, and vegetable mer-
curry by the whites, which 10 twenty times
stronger than castor oil, one drop of a FIVE
per cent. tIncturo causing q very brisk
catharsis.
"The girls, rs soon 70 they are able TO walk
and talk, are put in the 'yree-gree lush, q
sort OF convent, where they are instructed
in their duti, as women AMI wives. They
are usually sol by their parents In mar
rage as soon as they are horn. IL not
sold they must remain In the 'gres gree
BUSH un IL some enc buys them. The old
girls in the 'busi' instruct the new ones.
A vie costs about SIS. When the bidding
takes place the bride comes with presents
to the groom. and be must Civ Q in return
twice as much 80 she brings. A man
may have as many WV es as he con pay
form fact, they are the African branch
OF the Mormon Church. The boys are
kept In the 'creo-gres bush until OF age,
generally fourteen years. Should one of
either sex disclose ths sc rs.s OF their
'Iush,' or one be caught IN thc Others
'buSh,' he or she is put TO death publicly.
9Th -ir houses are malo of bamboo and
clay, with matched roofs. Their canoes
are very skill ully mad. AMI evenly bal
anced. when cracked they ere sewn
with bamboo fiber and the crack calked
with cotton from the native cotton tree.
have one about fifteen feet long, which
holds six persons, and cost me Eve dol
lars. 1 bought IL from an old man. a ma
tive canoemaker, who Is the grandfather
CT two little Vey boys, who are my god
children. Their names are John r..
Guigama and Ralph p. Gulgama. Ny
nearest composition is fifty miles east, at
Monrovia; next nearest, three hundred
miles west, at Sierra Leone; mono south at
all; and tho nearest north Is On thu Med
Il erranean coast"