The Liberian Exodus. Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Encountered typographical errors have been preserved.
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All em dashes are encoded as -- Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Running titles have not been preserved. Free African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia. Monrovia Liberia -- Description and travel. Liberia -- Description and travel. Liberia -- Social life and customs. Missions -- Africa. Back to Africa movement. The last sound of Charleston heard by the emigrants were the notes of "The Sweet Bye and Bye" from the excursionists aboard the Pocosin.
It is customary in letters similar to this to give over two or three pages of. We aboard the Azor had our reflections, and very grave ones, on leaving our native land. We reflected whether or not we were destined to be sea-sick, and to what extent. Doubts on the point were speedily and decisively decided after crossing the bar.
One by one the passengers fell until, with one or two honorable exceptions, everybody was down. But surely such a good natured and philosophical set of sick people was never before seen.
