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designates a class (e.g. degu, a doctor ; degu-bo., doctors). The 

 former, Gre, is the name of a species of monkey which leaps with 

 remarkable agility. In getting off from the shore at the time 

 of emigration, it appears that many canoes were capsized. The 



338. <JRKliO CHIKFS FROM Till; llAKVLAND COAST 



Grebo word for ' capsize ' is wore., and hence those who capsized 

 and remained were called worebo. Those who were successful 

 in embarking — leaping over the waves like the Gre — were 

 styled Grebo. The Grebo, proceeding up the coast in their 



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