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This brought us to a village of six huts. On my former visit to Maumee's town, four or five months ago, this girl excited a great deal of admiration by her beauty and charming simplicity. She was then thirteen or fourteen years of age, a bright mulatto, with large and soft black eyes, and the most brilliantly white teeth in the world. Her figure, though small, is perfectly symmetrical.
Following its course a mile or more towards the sea, we arrived at Maumee's Town, a village of thirty or forty huts, where a considerable slave-trade was carried on, until broken up by the colonists under Governor Ashman. Old Maumee still resides here, and cherishes a bitter hatred against the Liberians, and all Americans and Englishmen, as having caused the ruin of her profitable commerce.
Paul's Sugar Manufactory Maumee's beautiful Grand-Daughter the Sleepy Disease the Mangrove-Tree. February 29. We are on our return to Liberia. The ship is destined to cruise along the whole coast, from Cape Mesurado to the river Gaboon, touching at all important and interesting points.
When this lethargy has lasted three or four months, death comes with a tread that the patient cannot hear, and makes the slumber but a little more sound. I found the aspect of Maumee's beautiful grand-daughter inconceivably affecting.
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