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them, they proffered us a share of whatever food 
they were eating. Humane and kindly disposed to 
each other in their respective communities, both in 
sickness and health j willing to assist each other in 
difficulties; brave, yet forbearing, and reluctant to 
spill the blood even of an enemy, their battles 
are not attended with cruelties, their religious 
rituals untainted by human blood; in this afford- 
ing a notable difference over many other Africans, 
where man is made by his fellows the grand victim in 
conciliating the Juju or Fetiche. Murder is unknown 
among them, so much so, that one of their chiefs re- 
ceived the cognomen of “ cut-throat, for an attempt 
made on one of his subjects whom he discovered 
stealing from a vessel of war’s boat in 1825; and 
which affords also an instance of their antipathy to 
theft. In fact, we have seen them exposed to such 
temptations as few Africans could resist, and yet not 
betray the confidence placed in them. 
Neither foreign or domestic slavery is tolerated ; 
indeed, a spirit of freedom and independence is dis- 
cernible in their looks. The Spaniards were driven 
off the island during the latter part of the last cen- 
tury, for endeavouring to entrap the people and carry 
on the slave-trade. 
The females are here treated with greater con- 
sideration, and have less of the hard labour which is 
assigned to their sex throughout all other parts of the 
West Coast. Their principal duties are cooking food. 
