But all Monrovia is not made up of the freed American slaves who were settled there in 1821. There are people who are described in a lordly fashion by the true Monrovians as "indigenous natives," and the chief of these are the Kroomen, who pay no taxes, defy the Government, and at intervals tweak the official nose of the Republic. The second day after the bell was in place, Monrovia awoke to find a complete silence reigning in the bay, and that in spite of a heavy swell. The bell was still, and two ex-admirals, who were selling fish on the foreshore, borrowed a boat and rowed out to investigate. The explanation was simple--the bell had been stolen. "Now!" said the President of the Liberian Republic in despair, "may Beelzebub, who is the father and author of all sin, descend upon these thieving Kroomen!" Another bell was attached. The same night it was stolen. Yet another bell was put to the buoy, and a boat-load of admirals kept watch. Throughout the night they sat, rising and falling with the swell, and the monotonous "clang-jangle-clong" was music in their ears. All night it sounded, but in the early morning, at the dark hour before the sun comes up, it seemed that the bell, still tolling, grew fainter and fainter. "Brothers," said an admiral, "we are drifting away from the bell." But the explanation was that the bell had drifted away from them, for, tired of half measures, the Kroomen had come and taken the buoy, bell and all, and to this day there is no mark to show where a sometime man-of-war rots in the harbour of Monrovia. The ingenious soul who planned and carried out this theft was one Bosambo, who had three wives, one of whom, being by birth Congolaise, and untrustworthy, informed the police, and with some ceremony Bosambo was arrested and tried at the Supreme Court, where he was found guilty of "theft and high treason" and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. They took Bosambo back to prison, and Bosambo interviewed the black gaoler. "My friend," he said, "I have a big ju-ju in the forest, and if you do not release me at once you and your wife shall die in great torment." "Of your ju-ju I know nothing," said the gaoler philosophically, "but I receive two dollars a week for guarding prisoners, and if I let you escape I shall lose my job." "I know a place where there is much silver hidden," said Bosambo with promptitude. "You and I will go to this place, and we shall be rich." "If you knew where there was silver, why did you steal bells, which are of brass and of no particular value?" asked his unimaginative guard. "I see that you have a heart of stone," said Bosambo, and went away to the forest settlement to chop down trees for the good of the State. Four months after this, Sanders, Chief Commissioner for the Isisi, Ikeli, and Akasava countries, received, _inter alia_, a communication of a stereotyped description-- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.