But this account was written at the early sunrise of civilization in Sierra Leone. Now civilization is at its noonday tide, and the hopes of the most sanguine friends of the liberated Negro have been more than realized. How grateful this renewed spot on the edge of the Dark Continent would be to the weary and battle-dimmed vision of Wilberforce, Sharp, and other friends of the colony! And if they still lived, beholding the wonderful results, would they not gladly say, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel"? FOOTNOTES: [101] Savage Africa, p. 25. [102] Precis sur l'Etablissement des Colonies de Sierra Leona et de Boulama, etc. Par C.B. Wadstroem, pp. 3-28. [103] Wadstroem Essay on Colonization, p. 220. [104] This led to the sending of 119 whites, along with a governor, as counsellors, physicians, soldiers, clerks, overseers, artificers, settlers, and servants. Of this company 57 died within the year, 22 returned, and 40 remained. See Wadstroem, pp. 121, _sq._ [105] See Livingstone's Zambesi, pp. 633, 634. CHAPTER X. THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA. LIBERIA.--ITS LOCATION.--EXTENT.--RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS.--HISTORY OF THE FIRST COLONY.--THE NOBLE MEN WHO LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC.--NATIVE TRIBES.--TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT INTO THE VEI LANGUAGE.--THE BEGINNING AND TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS TO LIBERIA.--HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS ON THE FIELD.--A MISSIONARY REPUBLIC OF NEGROES.--TESTIMONY OF OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AS TO THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REPUBLIC IN SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE-TRADE.--THE WORK OF THE FUTURE.