tropical climes, coffee, cotton, and sugar being specially 

 noticed, remarking that, in a region where scarcely any 

 clothing is required, and very little is to be expended for 

 houses, if colonists from the United States did not thrive, 

 the trouble was to be traced to the habits of the colonists, 

 who desired to live by trading rather than by work ; a bet- 

 ter class of men, he was confident, would grow rich there. 



The natives of that coast go by the name of Krumen 

 among Europeans, the young men acting as sailors on 

 board ships while on their voyages to this coast. Their 

 conical huts, which were in many cases large and comfort- 

 able, and kept in good order, were grouped into towns or 

 villages, each surrounded by a strong fence. The people 

 were well formed, straight and muscular, wearing little 

 clothing. 



The religious ideas of the people take the form of Feti- 

 chism, with its accompaniments of witchcraft, devil wor- 

 ship, etc. Farming is the chief occupation of both sexes. 

 Rice and cassada are extensively cultivated, and, with the 

 fruit of the oil palm and fish, constitute their entire food. 

 The men, when not engaged on the farms, build or exca- 

 vate canoes, some of large dimensions ; these are made 

 from the cotton wood tree, which is abundant in their 

 forests ; others are of smaller size, for fishing. The trade 

 upon the coast is altogether barter. The wealth of the 

 natives consists in cows (which they exchange for wives, 

 three cows and a few smaller articles being the price of a 

 wife), sheep, goats, cloth, iron, brass rods (to be made 

 into ornaments), powder and guns. The women are fond 

 of beads, looking-glasses and other trinkets. Both sexes 

 wash quite often, and paint themselves with white clay 

 and often bright colors. Many curious customs were 

 alluded to as common among this interesting tribe of Afri- 

 cans. 



