but _not for slaves_, had one gun, and twenty-three men. Also,
that the brig was a patriotic brig in chase of her, and that
through fear she had taken shelter under our guns. The Captain
wished a supply of wood and water; but I told him I knew him to
be engaged in the slave trade, and that, though we did not
pretend to attempt suppressing this trade, we would not aid it,
and that I allowed him one hour, and one only, to get out of the
reach of our guns. He was very punctual, and I believe before his
hour."

Gurley, _Life of Jehudi Ashmun_, appendix, p. 157.

A letter to the American Colonization Society through her Secretary,
July 17th (1828):

Until we can raise crops sufficient to supply a considerable
number of new comers every year, such an arrangement (a vessel
large enough to run down to Cape Palmas and occasionally to
Sierra Leone) as will enable us to proceed farther to the leeward
than we have ever done, in order to procure supplies, will be
indispensably necessary; as there we can procure Indian Corn,
Palm Oil, and live stock. For these, neither the slave traders
nor others, give themselves much. Corn can be bought there for
from fifteen to twenty cents per bushel. Fifteen or twenty
bushels which I bought of Captain Woodbury, I have been using
instead of rice for the last two months. Besides, it can be
ground into meal, and would be better than any that can be sent.
Upon the supposed inquiry, will not the lands of the Colony
produce Corn? they will produce it in abundance; but with the
quantity of lands appropriated at present, and the means to
cultivate them, each landholder will, I think, be able to raise
but little more than may be required by his own family, and
consequently will have little to dispose of to new comers. (It
has been resolved by the Board of Managers to increase the
quantity of land alloted to each settler.)

Permit me to inform the Board, that proposals have been made by a
number of very respectable citizens in Monrovia, to commence a
settlement near the head of the Montserado River, which would be
a kind of farming establishment; which, should it be the pleasure
of the Board to approve, would be followed up with great spirit,
and found to contribute largely towards increasing our crops, for
the soil is