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KRU EMIGRATION RECOMMENDED. 
Of the two, the Ki'umen would probably be found 
the more useful to be employed as labourers on our 
Sugar plantations, as they are more accustomed to 
agricultural pursuits than the Fishmen, who look 
principally to the sea to afford them occupation. It 
would be very easy to engage a large number of the 
former at the rate of from fifteen to twenty shillings per 
mensem, paid either in money or in English goods. 
A great step toward this is already gained in the long 
established custom which this race of men have, and 
which is unknown to the rest of the Africans, namely, 
to hire themselves out at a fixed rate of pay for a term 
of years. They would, therefore, go to our colonies with 
a perfect understanding of what they would have to 
expect and "what would be expected of them. The first 
thing should be to secure some intelligent and very 
influential Kioiman, who would be sure to carry' with 
him a large number of “ boys,” as all the subordinates 
are called, to whom they would serve a sort of appren- 
ticeship ; among these might be mixed a few liberated 
Africans, who being acquainted with the head Krumen, 
and having confidence in them, would more readily em- 
bark in an enterprize of which they could not otherwise 
comprehend the nature. The force of example may 
induce others to follow, and, by degrees, with proper en- 
couragement to the Kru race, who, from their intelligence 
and well recognised disposition to industry, must be con- 
sidered as leaders, a considerable number of labourers 
might be procured. But it must be done in gangs, as is 
