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Most of the journeying was through the bush: there were long and fatiguing marches, and much climbing and jumping and wading to do, in which she had the help of three Kroo boys, but being active in body and buoyant in spirit, she enjoyed it thoroughly.
As our tender came alongside the Bruxellesville at Southampton, we saw at the winch Kroo boys of the Ivory Coast; leaning over the rail the Soeurs Blanches of the Congo, robed, although the cold was bitter and the decks black with soot-stained snow, all in white; missionaries with long beards, a bishop in a purple biretta, and innumerable Belgian officers shivering in their cloaks and wearing the blue ribbon and silver star that tells of three years of service along the Equator.
Davies, dancing on the engine- room plates, while the Kroo stokers grinned. The flat-iron turned up-stream again, and passed under the hove-up starboard side of the white gunboat, to be received with howls and imprecations in a strange tongue. The stranded boat, exposed even to her lower strakes, was as defence-less as a turtle on its back, without the advantage of the turtle's plating.
On the beach, one mile to the north of the new settlement, there is a small hamlet belonging to the Kroomen, a people entirely distinct in origin, language, and character, from all their neighbours. They originate from the populous tribe, whose country is Settra Kroo near Cape Palmas, and are well known as the pilots and watermen of the country.
I recollect nothing else, at Settra Kroo, that requires description, unless it be the person and garb of a native lady of fashion. Sitting with my friend Jack Purser, yesterday, a young woman came up, with a pipe in her mouth. A cloth around her loins, dyed with gay colors, composed her whole drapery, leaving her figure as fully exposed as the most classic sculptor could have wished.
And then, as, breathless, we waited to see what once was a Kroo boy float to the surface, he would appear sputtering and grinning, and saying to us as clearly as a Kroo smile can say it: "He never touched me!" Two days after we had stored away the mahogany we anchored off Duala, the capital of the German Cameroons.
The truth will be recounted at another time, but it is sufficient to say that Bosambo was one of those who did not doubt the authenticity of the legend. "Now I will speak to you, O my lord," he said earnestly, "and I speak by all oaths, both the oaths of my own people " "Spare me the oaths of the Kroo folk," protested Sir Robert, and raised a warning hand.
However, as he had put confidence in us, we did not molest him. Anchored at Settra Kroo. Ashore, and dined upon roasted oysters, in a native hut. A large, shrewd Krooman, Jack Purser by name, seems to be the most important private individual here. He is the great tradesman of the place, and very accommodating in his mode of transacting business. We saw a specimen of his dealings with the natives.
The Kroo Country Religion of the Kroo and Fish men Emigration of the Natives Sketch of their habits and customs Purchase of wives The Krooman's ne plus ultra Migratory propensities Rogueries exposed Adoption of English Names Cape Palmas Dexterity of the Fishmen Fish towns The Fetish Arrival at Cape Coast Land with the Governor Captain Hutchison Cape Coast mode of taking an airing Ashantee Chiefs Diurnal occupations School for Native Girls Domestication of Females Colonel Lumley Captain Ricketts Neglect of Portuguese fortresses A native Doctor
This wild horde, therefore, may be considered as permanently ejected from the ground which they held on so singular a tenure; and thus terminated an affair which throws a strong light on many of the characteristics of the natives, and likewise on the relations between them and the emigrants. December 3. We sailed, at two o'clock A.M., for Settra Kroo, fifteen miles down the coast.
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