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Mende nation is located in the eastern part of theS ierra Leone Protectorate. As to its origin I have been uuable to obtain any information, but if its recent movement be any indication, the general direction of its migration would seem to have been southerly. In the fourth decade of the nineteenth century Mendes were apparently little known on the seaboard, except as slaves brought down from the interior. The lateR everend Dr. Schoen, of the Church Missionary Society, and the author of books on the Hausa, I bo, and Mende languages, states (1882) that it seems that the nation is pressing on to the seashore, as they occupy at present the country where, in 1839, the slave-dealers had their depots of slaves in theS herbro country. Their baracoons were destroyed on the bunks of the great river Bum by Captain Denman, of theB ritish Navy, in 1840 or 1841, and since that time the country is open to British commerce and missionary operations, and theM ende are the principal occupants of the place, and their language has all but superseded, and will erelong supersede, theS herbro altogether. This movement has continued, but theS herbro language still exists. The imposition of peace on the country after the war of 1898, when the nation endeavoured to throw off European control, seems to have been the immediate cause of large numbers of the young men leaving their country. The suppression of local feuds deprived them of their chief activities. When there was constant local warfare the safety of the town depended on its male inhabitants being always at home. With the abolition of the necessity for their presence the young men began to look around for some direction in which to turn their energies, and finding none at home they were necessarily compelled to go abroad ;and they are now to be found in all parts of West A frica, including the French and German colonies. As
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