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[May 10 , 1858 . 
native chiefs, from whom it was bought for a trifle, and Europeans were forth- 
with set to work, in the blazing sun, to dig and clear the ground and to raise 
mounds for guns. A fearful mortality ensued, which would not have been the 
case had Krumen been employed, whose services are always easily to be 
obtained, and the settlement prospered poorly. Into the causes of its ill success 
Mr. Hutchinson does not enter. 
In 1833 Admiral Warren came out in the Iris , and disclaimed, on the part 
of the Government, their intention of keeping up the settlement any longer. 
Prom 1833 to 1837 the island remained in the hands of a private company, 
Dillon, Tennant, and Co., on whose failure in 1837 the West African Com- 
pany became possessors of the stores, and they sold them to the Baptist 
Missionary Society in 1841 for 1500Z. 
In 1843 Spain resumed possession ; the Spanish flag was hoisted there, as 
well as at Corisco and Anno Bon, and Mr. Beecroft was made Spanish 
governor of these three islands. In 1845 another expedition was sent, which 
left behind two priests and a few soldiers : the soldiers soon died, and the priests 
left the island. 
In the meantime the British Government, recognising the importance of its 
commercial interests in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, established a consulate, 
and Mr. Beecroft was appointed consul. His situation as Spanish governor 
did not interfere with this, as it was a mere nominal title, without any Spanish 
interests whatever for him to superintend ; and at the death of Mr. Beecroft in 
1854, he was succeeded by Governor Lynslager, a Dane. 
At the time of the arrival of a body of Spanish missionaries in 1856 not a 
single Spaniard was resident in the island. 
Since the foundation of Clarence, British cruisers have landed negroes from 
many captured slavers, and in March, 1856, the census of the population was 
as follows : — 
Englishmen 7 
Other British residents 98 
Liberated negroes „ . 238 
Children of old settlers, and others who con-i 22 o 
sider themselves British subjects . . j ^ 
Other negroes, working as artisans andi 
servants .. ... ./ 
Total .. .. ... 981 
Fernando Po, though rising to 10,000 feet above the sea, is wooded to its 
very summit, and teems with indigenous products, but it is uninhabited except 
to a very low level. Mr. Hutchinson corroborates the opinion of Lander that 
Clarence is not the best place for a settlement, but that St. George’s Bay offers 
a much better harbour, and that the high land on the top, Cape Badgely, 
would be as healthy for an European settlement as any place in a tropical 
island can be, , since it is probably above the fever level and is fully exposed to 
the westerly breeze. 
There has always been a difficulty about the ethnological group to which 
the natives of Fernando Po belong. Mr. Hutchinson describes them as perfect 
negroes, and decidedly without any of those Caucasian features ascribed to the 
Guanches, the indigenous population of the Canaries. He finds especial fault 
with the two likenesses of Fernandians published in Lieutenant-Colonel 
Smith’s work on the Natural History of the Human Species. They are utterly 
unlike Fernandians, either in colour or in form of feature. A long list of 
their ceremonies is given with a view to their identification with other tribes. 
Their burials are very peculiar, for their dead are buried upright, with the 
