Excerpt from Report of Commander W. F. Lynch, in Relation to His Mission to the Coast of Africa, 1853A letter received fi'om Sierra Leone since my return here, reports a large proportionate increase for the first quarter of the present year, but as it is not official, I withhold it. It will be seen that the reported exports very much exceed the imports, and the inference is, that all of the latter, as well as the former, are not entered at the custom-house, but distributed in the neighboring rivers.Leaving Sierra Leone for Monrovia, with a fair wind, we passed Sherbro island and the Shebar and Gallinas rivers, and on the second day made Cape Mount.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.