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value of a Spanish dollar. The people say these beads 
are very old, and that their ancestors found them growing 
a long way otf in the bush ; but there can be little 
doubt they were obtained when their possessors inhabited 
the mountain district to the north, and trafficked with 
other tribes who ha'd commercial dealings with the 
Egyptians. 
The presence of these ornaments at such a distance 
from the place where they were originally produced is a 
curious fact, and may throw some light on the early 
Km history ; at least it points to the probability of 
their having had communication, more or less direct, 
with the Egyptians : that it was no casual circumstance 
is shewn from the quantity of these beads which are 
found among them. Of late years, the traders on the 
coast have tried to introduce imitations, but they are 
immediately distinguished, and do not pass for one 
twentieth of the value of the real Aggri bead. 
The Krumen have for a long period been connected 
with our trade on the west coast of Africa, and are 
almost the only tribes who entertained such confi- 
dence in Englishmen as to trust themselves away from 
their homes, and for an indefinite time on board ship. 
This has now become so general among them^ — as the 
only way of acquiring riches — that nearly all the male 
population spend a shorter or longer term of probation, 
either in trade ships or in vessels of war. The com- 
mencement of their career is by an apprenticeship 
to a headman — generally an influential person, and 
of great previous experience, whose duty it is to initiate 
