A SPECIMEN DAY WITH THE FAN CANNIBALS. 69 
results. Those who have dealings with the Fan univer- 
sally prefer them in point of honesty and manliness to 
the Mpongwe and Coast races ; they have not had time 
to become thoroughly corrupt, to lose all the lesser 
without gaining anything of the greater virtues. They 
boast, like John Tod, that they ne’er feared the French, 
OFF TO THE WAR. 
and have scant respect for (white) persons ; indeed, 
their independence sometimes takes the form of insolence. 
We were obliged to release by force the boy Nyongo, 
and two of Mr. Tippet’s women who had been put “ in 
log ” — Ancjlice, in the stocks. They were wanted as 
hostages during the coming war, and this rude contri- 
vance was adopted to insure their presence. 
