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Far better two or three hours of the 'three Rs' and six of the shop or workyard. The Sá Leonites from their earliest days were greedy to gain knowledge as the modern Greeks and Bulgarians; but the motive was not exalted.
Labour ranges from sixteen to twenty-four francs per mensem; and coolies could not command more than twenty-five francs, including 'subsistence. Here Kruboys are much used. Returning to the Gold Coast, I find two classes of working men, the country-people and the Kruboys: the Sierra Leonites are too few to be taken into consideration.
We carried on the A.S.S. Winnebah, for the benefit of Mr. Cross, of Liverpool, a big black ape, which the Sa Leonites called a 'black chimpanzee. Though badly wounded she had cost 27l., and died after a few days of the cage. The young chimpanzees were valued at 61.
During my last visit the Sa Leonites spoke of building a sanatorium at Wilberforce village, alias Signal Hill, where a flag announces the approach of vessels. The tenement rose to nearly the first story, when it stopped short for want of funds. Now they talk of a white regiment being stationed at the 'White Man's Grave, and propose barracks high up the hills beyond sight of the town-frontage.
Kenyon, who is leaving for England, were the only white men I saw. The hands are chiefly Kruboys and the artificers Sierra Leonites. Since Mr. Creswick's departure for Europe some changes have been made. Mr. Growan, the acting manager, has transferred the future works to a higher level, and has fitted up a reduction-office where there is, at present, nothing to reduce.
At last the Sa Leonites, hopeless of obtaining a Government grant, have set on foot a subscription which reached 500l. some say 700l. There are, therefore, certain fitful signs of activity, and bricks and fire-bricks now cumber the ground; but it is all a 'flash in the pan. The present purpose is to make it a library, in place of the fine old collection which went to the dogs.
The first class of common boys get 20s.; the second from 13s. 6d. to 15s.; and the third, mostly 'small boys, between 5s. and 10s. His carpenters and blacksmiths, who are Gold Coasters and Sierra Leonites, draw from 2l. 10s. to 3l. The rations are, as usual, 1-1/2 lb. of rice per day, with 1 lb. of 'Sunday beef, whose brine is converted into salt. Mr.
This movement was put down by introducing a third element of 530 Maroons, who arrived in October. Many of the disaffected Sá Leonites left the colony; some fled to the wilds and the wild ones of the interior, and a few remained loyal. Rumours of native invasions began to prevail.
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