National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
FIFTY DAYS In AFRICA.
Africa As Seen By Rev. W =. Uladden.
Of Great Bend In 1889.
Continued from week before last)

Continued from week before last)
Wednesday morning we awoke feel
ing somewhat refreshed as it was the
first night the ship had been still for 33
days. All being ready, we again took
passage in the natives small boat for
tie shore, and after being tossed about
BY the waves, reached the shore in SAT-
ETY.. After greeting those with whom
we had previously become acquainted,
we again made our way up the narrow
streets lined with cocoanut, banana
and orange trees to the mayors office
which we reached in due time, and af-
ter waiting some time, the mayor came
in and was introduced to him; he told
me that we could not land at MOnrOvia
as we had been assigned to Ground
Barra, a place about forty miles South
of Monrovia. TO this place the fifty
four emigrants on our ship bad been
assigned by the colonization society in
America, Not being all cmigrant, |
was spared beng shipped to that point
with these emigrants who were shipped
to their destination like SO many cattle.
After in4uiring into the matter, | learn
ed that when en.igrants are ready to
leave America, they are assigned to this
place-Ground Barra-before they
leave America, but without their know
ledge, and If when they arrive there
they do not comply with this action Of
the society, they are deprived Of the
grant Of 25 acres Of land given them by
the Government.
When it was learned that was a WIS.,
itor instead Of all emigrant, was treat
ed with much more cOurtesey than |
had before been accorded. Wa3 intro
duced to Professor E. W. BIyden who
gave me rather cool reception yet pro-
ceeded to explain to me the advantages
in Liberia had over his A
merican brother, all of which was
unable to see. After expressing hope
that | would come to like the country,
and make it my home, he bid me adieu.
I was next attracted by great noise
down the street which [ was not long
in learning was caused by the announ-
cement that President Johnson had
been reelected, and after walking over
the principal streets Of The city AMI there
being no hotel, returned to the ship to
get my dinner. After dinner, the cap
tain having employed native crew to
unload the slip, the weather being so
hot that no other men eoHld stand to do
the work, I watched them, and it was
then began to see my mistake, for in
the cargo Of that ship was everything
that is used by the people Of Africa
who 60 from this country except coffee.
They ship lumber from New York to
build houses with; this lumber sells in
that country at the rate OF $40 per thous-
and feet; there was not saw mill Ill
the Republic, no horses or wagons, and
what little lumber that is sawed in that
country is done by the natives with rip
saws. After the small boat was load
ed we were off again for the city where
upon my arrival there, met Hon. +.
E. Smith of North Carolina, who was
then Minister to Liberia from this coun-
try; he gave me a warm reception and
explained something to me that was
altogether different from what expec-
ted. The COWS in Liberia are small,
weighing from $50 to 300 pounds at the
largest; sheep weigh from II to 25 lbs.,
and are covered with hair instead of
wool; goats and chickens are both very
small; pork sells for $40 per hundred;
-four sells for $25 per barrel; butter 80
cents ID and is shipped from Ameri-
ca; eggs, rs cents per dozen; sugar, 20
cents per pound; rice, 20 cents per
pound; Holland gin, $l.O0 per gallon;
calico, 25 cents per yard, and everything
else in the way Of necessities are cor
respondingly high; there is tariff Oh
everything that is imported, and every
thing is imported, even salt. The ex-
ports from Liberia are coffee, palm oil,
palm kernels, mahogany, hides, rubber,
monkeys, parrots, snakes and chimpan-
Zees. and.a little ivory.
let me say that if any one lands in
Africa without money enough to come
back home on-if they want to do so =
unless they havefriends in this country
who will send for them, arc liable to
remain there until they die, for there is
no way to earn enough money to re-
turn on as the natives are hired to do !
all the work; and there is nothing you
can raise but coffee, and it takes q coffee
tree seven years to mature. / saw men
there who had gone there from this