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present name, and the lake and creeks behind Cape Mount, 

 which are nowadays known as Pisu,^ are referred to as Plizoge. 

 The Little Cape Mount River is called the Menoch or Rio 

 Aguado. The interior people immediately behind the Kwoya 

 or Vai are styled the " Galavey." The tribal name of Hondo, 

 still farther in the interior, is probably the modern Kondo. The 

 De tribe is not referred to by name, but is evidently included 

 under the generic term of Carou, by which seems to be indicated 



35. DUTCH SAILING VESSEL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 

 AFTER LEVINUS HULSIUS 



the Kru race in general. (Reference to my vocabularies will 

 show that the De language is only one of the dialects of the 

 Kru family.) The Folgia (^ Fulja) may be a people belonging to 

 the Gora stock. They seem to have inhabited the coast district 

 now occupied by the De people ; but they were at that time — 

 the middle of the seventeenth century — a powerful and warlike 

 race which, under the name of Kwoya or Kwia, had partially 

 conquered the coast Vai. Dapper's " Gala " are evidently the 



^ Merely " lake " or " river " in Vai. 

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