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Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, 1843, Vol. 2 It may he remarked that there have been other acquisitions to the colony besides emigrants from Maryland, particularly those who went from Mon rovia and Bassa in the brig Ann, at the settlement of the colony. But we think this number is fully equalled by those who have left the colony. There are, for instance, now residing in this city three who have returned home. Luke Walter and his whole family, eleven in all, returned almost immediately after their arrival in the colony. Some are also in other colo nies along the coast, changing their residence, as might be expected in a free country. The conclusion is but fair, that independent of immigration, we have a regular increase, although a small one, over all deaths from accli mation, casualties and accidents, a remarkable circumstance in the settle ment of any new country, and we believe unprecedented in the tropical world. We append a table of births, deaths and marriages taken from the Colo nial Records. The marriages and births from January, 1840, to January, 1843, the deaths for the past year only, those of the two preceding years having been annually reported. It will be noted that the whole number of deaths the past year have been 19, amongst these, 3 white missionaries and 2 from casualty - exclu sive of these there have been but 14, while the number of births for the same periods has been 22, making a net increase of 8 the past year. Let these facts speak for the salubrity of the colony of Cape Palmas! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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