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Savage Africa; Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa with Notes on the Habits of the Gorilla on the Exist

          
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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. THE REPUBLIC OF COLORED GENTLEMEN. Liberia: its Description; its Future and its Resources. We are now passing along the coast of Liberia, and a word or two on this country will make so good an appendix to my last, that I shall pass over Cape Palmas for the present. I have shown you a colony in which a white bishop and a white governor possess the nominal dominion over soul and body, but where the real power belongs to the black. Now what think you of a state in which no white man is allowed to have land at all? Liberia is a republic of American negroes. They have a black president, black senators, black merchants, and a black populace. Every thing is done in small mimicry of their step-mother. Their metropolis (and only town) is called Monrovia. It is built on the peninsula of Cape Mesurada, is three quarters of a mile long, and half that distance in breadth. The houses are framed dwellings of a story and a half high, raised on a stone or brick foundation of six feet . There are four churches; below the high bluff on which the town stands are six or seven substantial warehouses. There is also a tavern (there are only four in West Africa altogether), which is kept by a preacher and a temperance man, and where ale, porter, wine, and cherry brandy may be obtained. The landlord probably compounds with his outer conscience—by which I mean that which speaks with the brazen trumpet of scandal, and not with the still, small voice, which one can more easily shut one's ears to—as a Mr. Cooper did who kept a hotel before him. This worthy man set forth that nothing was more repugnant to his feelings than to sell ardent spirits; but that, if gentlemen would have them, the following was his price— which he made very high, probably for the purpose of deterring them fro...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458970350
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 186 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458970353
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jan 2012
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 295 gr

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