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Rh ily, and all passed safely through the process of accli- mation ; not one died of fever. My grandmother lived to the ripe old age of seventy-six and my mother died seven years ago, having reached the period of three score and seven years. My father met with an acci- dent while repairing the American Colonization So- ciety's warehouse of this city by falling from the roof of the building, which resulted in his death. One of my brothers contracted a cold while on his way to Liverpool and died of that. The rest of our family are living and enjoying excellent health. I was fifteen years old when I came to this country, have been here a little over thirty-nine years, and with the exception of an attack of rheumatism now and then, brought on by excessive exertion and exposure, I enjoy exceed- ingly good health. " Nearly all of my associates and acquaintances whom I left in Savannah, Ga., in 1853, have yielded to the inexorable demands of death, while I, who live in the so-called ' inhospitable climate ' of Liberia, enjoy good health, working six days out of seven, at my store from 6 : 30 o'clock a. m. to 5 p. m., and then without feeling very much fatigued when evening comes on. " There are foreigners, German, Dutch, Norwegians and Englishmen, living in all parts of Liberia, from Cape Mount to Cape Palmas, for the purpose of trade, and after a few months' acclimation they enjoy very good health — many of them looking as well as when they first arrived from Europe. Persons who adopt cleanly, industrious and temperate habits need have no fear of the fever or climate. Lady Missionaries " There are in this city today two white mission- ary ladies, one belonging to the M. E. Mission and the other to the Protestant Episcopal Mission ; the former has been here over ten years and the latter seven. One has visited America twice during her stay of ten years and the other has not been outside of Liberia, yet both

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