^ Anthropology : Physical 



sometimes standing by itself, at other times carried slung round 

 the body. Tiny little hand-drums with an exterior string lashing 

 and painted red and blue are made in the Kru country. 



The means of transport and locomotion resorted to, in addi- 

 tion to porterage and walking, is the use of dug-out canoes 

 on any sheet of water that is navigable.' Only the Mandingo 

 coming from the north possess any idea of a beast of burden. 

 They have horses of two or more breeds. Some of these — of a 



409. A MANDINGO HOKSE 



pony-liice type — find their way from the north through the 

 forest to the coast. More often the Mandingo horses which one 

 meets with (very rarely) in Liberian towns have come by sea 

 from French Guinea. They do not thrive in the coast region 

 at all. Where canoes cannot be employed for the transport of 

 men and burdens, the traffic and commerce of the country are 

 carried on by means of human porterage. All burdens are 



' No type of caiioe but the " dug-out " is indigenous to the country. The canoe 

 is simply a tree trunk hollowed tojhe requisite thinness by fire and by adzing. 



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