I will get a couple of their cane chairs, too, they are very light and comfortable." In the afternoon they again embarked, and then steamed away for Sierra Leone.

After several days' passage, they arrived there at daylight, and Frank was soon on deck.
"What a beautiful place!" he exclaimed.

"It is not a bit what I expected." "No," Mr.Goodenough said; "no one looking at it could suppose that bright pretty town had earned for itself the name of the white man's grave." Sierra Leone is built on a somewhat steep ascent about a mile up the river.

Freetown, as the capital is properly called, stands some fifty feet or so above the sea, and the barracks upon a green hill three hundred feet above it, a quarter of a mile back.

The town, as seen from the sea, consists entirely of the houses of the merchants and shopkeepers, the government buildings, churches, and other public and European buildings.