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very vivid imagination might picture the effect probably 
following the introduction in larger quantity of such a 
beverage, or say the method of manufacturing the article 
for themselves. 
The character of the Negro is thus described by Mr. 
Phillips : “ He is very averse to work, and takes little 
thought for the future, has little love or hate, is not revenge- 
ful, as that would entail trouble or expense, lives unto 
himself alone. Crafty, cunning, a born swindler, often a 
confessed rogue, avaricious yet lazy, he generally attaches 
himself to some one of importance and does his bidding like 
a stray cur who follows you home, and of which you take 
charge. This is not the individual, but the national cha- 
racter/’ In the early part of this year, 1874, the small-pox 
broke out violently on the Coast. Mr. Phillips at once set 
to work to grapple with the evil in a manner which is 
beyond praise. Having procured a quantity of vaccine 
lymph, he vaccinated some hundreds of the Negroes. The 
result exceeded his expectations, for not one died who had 
been vaccinated, though numbers fell around them. Later 
on, Mr. Phillips writes, I am entirely out of lymph, and, in 
connection with this. 111 tell you something. When I had 
finished the ‘ batch ’ of which I have spoken I told several 
to come at the time of ripening, so that I could transfer the 
matter for the use of others; but not one had the generosity 
to remember his neighbours, and not one came.” Mr. 
Phillips further writes : I believe if the vaccine lymph be 
fresh, be it syphilitic, cancerous, scrofulous, what not, it acts 
in precisely the same manner.” 
The social customs are of a very peculiar nature, and 
certain of them furnish, as I have recently found, an in- 
teresting contribution to the elucidation of a question con- 
nected with ancient Greek History. Mr. Phillips writes : 
“The women are the slaves of their husbands or the 
mother’s eldest brother. This may seem a strange arrange-’ 
