ABSTRACT

We sailed in our o,vn Inission ship, a small schooner, purchased as a new year's gift by the children of the" United Presbyterian Church:" and had for sailing master a most pronli~ing and well recommended young man, and for mate a pious and devoted youth, connected ,vith a llluch honoured family in the same body. One of our o","n poets expressed the feelings of the donors on this occasion, in some excellent verses of ,vhich I ma,y quote the two following:-

Our voyage was quite a contrast to that in the JJTarree, January 1846. The winds were lllost favourable. In twelve days we passed Madeira; and we might have been at Calabar in six weeks, but for necessary stoppages on our way. The first of these was at .Jlonrovia, the capital of the free black republic-LIBERIA.