as to the future, and dissatisfied and peevish from day to day.  Kizell afterwards remarked that “some would not be governed by white men, and some would not be governed by black men, and some would not be governed by mulattoes; but the truth was they did not want to be governed by anybody.”  On March 3, however, the ship sighted the Cape Verde Islands and six days afterwards was anchored at Sierra Leone; and Coker rejoiced that at last he had seen Africa.  Kizell, however, whom the agents had counted on seeing, was found to be away at Sherbro; accordingly, six days after their arrival[2] they too were making efforts to go on to Sherbro, for they were allowed at anchor only fifteen days and time was passing rapidly.  Meanwhile Bankson went to find Kizell.  Captain Sebor was at first decidedly unwilling to go further; but his reluctance was at length overcome; Bacon purchased for $3,000 a British schooner that had formerly been engaged in the slave-trade; and on March 17 both ship and schooner got under way for Sherbro.  The next day they met Bankson, who informed them that he had seen Kizell.  This man, although he had not heard from America since the departure of Mills and Burgess, had already erected some temporary houses against the rainy season.  He permitted the newcomers to stay in his little town until land could be obtained; sent them twelve fowls and a bushel of rice; but he also, with both dignity and pathos, warned Bankson that if he and his companions came with Christ in their hearts, it was well that they had come; if not, it would have been better if they had stayed in America.

[Footnote 1:  “Journal of Daniel Coker, a descendant of Africa, from the time of leaving New York, in the ship Elizabeth, Capt.  Sebor, on a voyage for Sherbro, in Africa.  Baltimore, 1820.”]

[Footnote 2:  March 15.  The narrative, page 26, says February 15, but this is obviously a typographical error.]

Now followed much fruitless bargaining with the native chiefs, in all of which Coker regretted that the slave-traders had so ruined the people that it seemed impossible to make any progress in a “palaver” without the offering of rum.  Meanwhile a report was circulated through the country that a number of Americans had come and turned Kizell out of his own town and put some of his people in the hold of their ship.  Disaster followed disaster.  The marsh, the bad water, and the malaria played havoc with the colonists, and all three of the responsible agents died.  The few persons who remained alive made their way back to Sierra Leone.

Thus the first expedition failed.  One year later, in March, 1821, a new company of twenty-one emigrants, in charge of J.B.  Winn and Ephraim Bacon, arrived at Freetown in the brig Nautilus.  It had been the understanding that in return for their passage the members of the first expedition would clear the way for others; but when the agents of the new company saw the plight of those who remained alive, they brought