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The Seat of the slave Trade.

tribes as the KrOOS, the sailors or West
Africa, the Golahs, Pessyes, Bassas and
Maudingoes.
The Seat of the slave Trade.
Before the Colonization society pur-
chased Cape Mesurado and settled Mon
rovla, the ancient capital of the Deys,
known by them as Greewah, the entire
coast was the seat OF the slave trade, of
which Monrovia was the active center.
The SpanlardS were good customers.
and carried on such a lively trade with
King Mannah Funacai and his people
that frequent raids were made on the
interior tribes to keep up the supply
for the GreeWah market. The Amer
lean Colonization society, after pur-
chasing the territory and permanently
establishing a colony, endeavored TO
destroy the slave trade. This bitterly
disappointed King Mannah Funacai
and mis- people, and they attacked the
colOnists at every opportunity.
so intense did the feeling against the
americans become that the king for
babe his people to render any assistance
to the colonists. King Mannah had sew
eral wives. OF these TWahalla was the
favorite. Twahaila violated King Man
nah's command by affiliating with the
Americans, and also with the Spaniards,
who kept slave mart at Digby. a few
miles north of MonrOvia. The Span
iards as well as the Americans had dis
pleased the king. In order to punish
his wife he accused her of infidelity. and
sold her to Dutch slave vessel that was
receiving cargo of slaves for the Dutch
possessions In Guiana, South America.
Twahalla, in turn to revenge herself
for the wrong done her by her
husband, stole Funica, the eldest
daughter of herself and the king,
and took her into slavery with herself;
Funica was the favorite child of the
king, and his affection for her was so
great that the loss of her nearly broke
his heart. He foreswore slave trading
from that hour and never again en-
people were very suspicious. He attrib-
p pted all of his misfortunes to the witch
that the American God had made to de-
stroy them. They swore perpetual en-
nifty to the Americans, and the king
and his family removed to the north
western portion of Liberia, where they
and their descendants have since lived.
The last of the Mannan rulers, Prince
Marannah Sandy, died at Mannah in
1882.
Romantic Story.
Funica, the grandmother of Cornelius
McKane, was stolen from her native
country to be sold into slavery in Dutch
Guiana. That portion OF that country
where she was taken soon came
into the possession OF the English.
Through the efforts of London mis-
sionary she was converted from pagan
ism to Christianity. Funica married in
the land of her exile fellow country
man. who, too, was stolen from his ma
tive land. She had several children,
most of whom died IN youth, but her
oldest daughter married. When she
died she left two little Children boy Of
six and girl of two years Of age. This
boy was Cornelius McKane, the subject
of this story.
McKane started out from Georgetown.
British Guiana, at ten years of age. to
seek an education. His grandmother
told him the story Of her life, and as she
parted with him made him promise
that he would return to the land of his
grandmother and great grandmother
and work for the regeneration of his
race. McKane had many years Of
hardships. and when he landed in
New York he was pennilesS and
homeless. Moses F. Wester, a de-
vout colored Baptist deacon, who was in
the habit of assisting worthy young
men and women OF his race to obtain an
education, is jan1tor of the DreXel build
ing. No. 20 Wall street. He at once
took McKane into his household and
sent him to grammar school No. 80.
McKane graduated with honors and be
gan lscturing in behalf of Liberia. He
completed brief course at the high
school and then went out to Liberia,
where he immediately began the study
of the native languages, making him.
self proficient in them and also in
Arabic. He was soon made principal Of
the city grammar school at Monrovia
but in order to be with his own people
he left Monrovia to become principal of
the Shingay mission school at SherbrO,
met Chief Neal Caulker. the executive
head of the Sherbro tribes, who put him
i'm position to discover the youngest
sister of his great grandmother, iva
halla. She is an old woman. and upon
recognizing the young relative she ex-
claimed: "Tako-neh Ebenn Allahw
"You come bring Cod"
To Open a Hospital in Africa.
Young McKane here resolved to
equip himself for medical missionary.
Returning to Liberia he temporarily
took charge of the treasury department
of the republic at the request of Presi-
dent johnson. In 1888 he returned to
this country to complete his studies,
which he did at the Medical University
of Vermont. So thorough was his work
that he WAS selected to prepare classes
of young white men for college,. He is
now practicing medicine and surgery
while waiting for the necessary oppor-