Africa and its inhabitants . uts, palm-oil, and preparing sea-salt for theMandingans of the interior. The Kroo language, a member of the Manda family, which also includes theFanti, Ashanti, Bassa, and Grebo, is gradually gi\iug place to English, at least inthe neighbourhood of the factories. Most of the chiefs have received and accepted i LIBERIA. 221 jocular Euglisli uicknames, such as Jack-after-Supper, Flying Jib, Two-pound-ten,and the like. Most of the villages also have an English by-name, and nearlyevery group of huts has in its vicinity a quarter bearing a similar name, precededby the w
Africa and its inhabitants . uts, palm-oil, and preparing sea-salt for theMandingans of the interior. The Kroo language, a member of the Manda family, which also includes theFanti, Ashanti, Bassa, and Grebo, is gradually gi\iug place to English, at least inthe neighbourhood of the factories. Most of the chiefs have received and accepted i LIBERIA. 221 jocular Euglisli uicknames, such as Jack-after-Supper, Flying Jib, Two-pound-ten,and the like. Most of the villages also have an English by-name, and nearlyevery group of huts has in its vicinity a quarter bearing a similar name, precededby the words half, or picanniny. The Kroos are also taking to Europeanclothes, pea-jackets, felt or straw-hats, umbrellas, braccdets, and other ornaments,and the houses themselves are ofteu fitted up with furniture. It may be questioned whether this native race is not exorcising more civilisinginfluences on the indigenous elements than the American colonists with their Fig. 93.—INHABIA^•T3 OF 1 : 6,000, ^m^f / -t^^ iii* jT^ otonm Fttt, Dcptlw. BfiO Feet and upwanlH. Approzimiite hciKhta of 2,000Feet. Miles. pedantic ways and borrowed formulas. The whitt? population numbered in ISSlno more than forty persons, all males except the wife of a missionary. Thecoloured people call themselves whites, and as such aspire lo the governuuiit of therepublic. Hero party struggles turn on the of the coloured orhalf-caste and full-blood Negroes, and hitherto the former have maiutuiucd tlicm-selves in ofhce. Apart from a few upright men who have endeavoured to carry out the workof moral regeneration for which the colony was founded, most of th«< Wcogeo, orcivilised Liboriuns, eudoavour to assert their own superiority by despising tho 222 WEST APEICA. stinking bush-niggers, as they call the aborigines, and keeping them in a stateof servitude and degradation. Scarcely any alKances are contracted between the Americans and the native women, so that the civ
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