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GREBUS AND KRUMEN. 
bring them here under consideration. Premising that 
the general and proper native names are Grebus, or 
Fishmen, and Kru-men, the appellation of the latter 
not being derived from their forming part of the 
crew of a ship, as erroneously stated by some authors, 
hut in reality from the part of the coast whence they 
were first employed, viz., Nanna Kru and Settra Kru. 
Still there can be no doubt, on comparing the phy- 
sical characters and language of both, that they are cer- 
tainly one and the same race of people, however much 
the present animosities existing between them may 
induce each to declare to the contrary. Under the two 
heads of Grebus or Fishmen, and Ki-umen, may be 
classed the inhabitants of the small section of West 
Africa, comprised between 6® and 10® west longitude, and 
4® 25' and 5® 45' north latitude. Of the two tribes, the 
Fishmen, or Grebus, are somewhat the more numerous : 
they inhabit the following localities of the space just 
referred to — Cape Palmas, Grand Sesters, Fishtown, 
Garraway, Log Town, Carvallhi, Po River, Tahou ; 
while the proper Krumen possess Settra Kru, Krubar, 
Nanna Kru, King William’s Town, and Piccaniny Sesters. 
The Fishmen, as their name implies, are mostly accus- 
tomed to canoe life ; and from their sitting so much in 
their narrow confined bai’ks, the skin over the outer 
ankle becomes thickened in many cases, and this they 
refer to as a distinct and inherited mark, which of course 
is absurd, as it only obtains among a few of them who 
have been much occupied on the water. That they are 
