MODE OF GOVERNMENT. 
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not inappropriately named, is evident from the dexterity 
they have acquired in their favourite element, wherein 
they seem to be more at home than on “ terra firma.” 
The Krumen attend more to agriculture, and trust 
principally to the growth of rice and Indian corn. 
The history, and domestic and religious customs, are 
the same in both. Each tribe has a King or Bullioh, 
as well as a grand “ palaver” house. That for the Kru 
country is held at Krubar ; the Bullioh residing at Nanna 
Kru, while Grand Sesters is the head-quarters of the 
Grebus, or Fishmen’s King, and the grand “ palaver” 
house. 
Each separate town has a chief and little “ palaver” 
house, where minor disputes are settled ; but every two 
or three years, a grand “ palaver ” is held, to which 
deputies are sent from the little “ palaver ” ho\ises, and 
the more important matters of each town arranged by 
majority. 
The food of these tribes is principally rice, palm oil, 
and fish. The Grebus live more on the latter, but they 
add plantains, the flesh of deer, beef, &c., occasionally, 
as it can be procured. Umbilical and scrotal hernia and 
enlargement of some of the conglomei-ate glands, dicchari, 
or a species of slow gangrene, by which they lose their 
toes or fingers, and ulcers, are the most important dis- 
eases ; but during August — the middle of their rainy 
season and the most sickly month— dysentery, and 
fevers, remittent and intermittent, occur; the latter is the 
most fatal, though slow’est. These they attribute to the 
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