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—5— implements of war, and in sending presents to the various chiefs in the Sherbro country, as far up as to the Boom, Kittam, and Bompeh rivers. Thus he continued for several years, until he felt himself strong enough for retaliation. Then he gave up his employment, and marched his army, consisting of men from the various tribes of the Sherbro country, into the Plantain Island, where a single day's engagement restored him to his right, and made him once more monarch of the island. Mr. Cleveland afterward died, and Caulker with his brother remained masters of the island without further opposition.

Time will fail us to dwell on the various struggles and bloodshed through which this country has passed–Canrabah Caulker’s war, and the attempt of the French to rob Bendoo from the Sherbroes, which led to the transference of that and many other parts in Sherbro to the British government. In the year 1847 disturbances arising from boundary questions and rivalries arose, which were the cause of great confusion. In 1849 the British government had to interfere.

Accordingly, on the fourth of July, a treaty was signed at Tasso between Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine, Esq., then acting governor of Sierra Leone, and Thomas Stephen Caulker, chief of the Plantain Island, and Canrabah Caulker, chief of Bompeh, arranging the division of the territories among them to save future misunderstandings.

From the year 1849 we pass over to 1855. Early this year Revs. W. J. Shuey, D. C. Kumler, and D. K. Flickinger sailed out to this country–not with chains and shackles for orang-outangs, but with the living word. Two of this number soon returned to America, and the third one also, after being here some over a year. But the command, Go