Report of Rev. John McKay, Colored Agent of the State Board of Colonization
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Excerpt from Report of Rev. John McKay, Colored Agent of the State Board of Colonization: On Liberia To the President and Members of the Indiana State Board of Colonization: Gentlemen: We respectfully submit the following as our report of our late visit to the Republic of Liberia: We sailed from Norfolk, in the ship Banshee, on the 13th of November, and reached the African coast in twenty days; and in fourteen days more we came in sight of Grand Cape Mount, a bold promontory jutting out into the ocean, and gradually rising to an elevation of 1,060 feet above the level of the sea - having a base of at least fifteen miles, and capped by a broad table land, extending back into the country forty miles, terminating at a chain of still higher and more broken hills. The Cape and country adjoining appeared to me the most beautiful scene 1 ever beheld. Like many others, I had regarded that country as a barren and desolate waste; but I found myself much mistaken on this point, as the whole country as covered with a heavy forest of fine trees, of great variety and excellent quality for timber, springing up from a soil of great fertility. After a run of thirty-six hours, we reached Cape Mesurado, the elevated site of the town of Monrovia, the Capital of the Republic, in the harbor of which we cast anchor on the 19th of December, making a passage of thirty-five and one-half days from Norfolk to Monrovia. The passage was an agreeable one to me, as I was not disturbed with the sea sickness, and the termination of the voyage found me in as good health as I have ever enjoyed - this was fortunate, as I wished to improve the opportunities of the visit to the utmost. I am much indebted to Mr. Wingate, the captain of the ship, for his kind attention and respect, for which I shall ever feel grateful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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