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The American Navy and Liberia An Address before the American Colonization Society, January 18, 1876

Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1822-1895· 2 chapters· 7,635 words

GENTLEMEN: It is not inappropriate to this occasion that an officer of the navy should address your honorable Society, and although your committee might easily have chosen a more worthy representative of that branch of the public service, they could have found none more sincer...

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The most important of the native tribes is the Mandingo, which occupies nearly the whole of the eastern frontier of Liberia. These people are Mahomedans, and their influence ext...

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GENTLEMEN: It is not inappropriate to this occasion that an officer of the navy should address your honorable Society, and although your committee might easily have chosen a mor...