the French Colony . i 5 
less cranky if I could wait awhile; he manned it 
with three of his own K rumen, and he collected 
the necessary stores and supplies of cloth, pipes 
and tobacco, rum, white wine, and absinthe for the 
natives. 
My private stores cost some 200 francs. They 
consisted of candles, sugar, bread, cocoa, desiccated 
milk, and potatoes ; Cognac and Medoc ; ham, sau¬ 
sages, soups, and preserved meats, the latter French 
and, as usual, very good and very dear. The total 
expenditure for twelve days was 300 francs. 
My indispensables were reduced to three loads, 
and I had four “ pull-a-boys,” one a Mpongwe, 
Mwaka alias Captain Merrick, a model sluggard ; 
and Messrs. Smoke, Joe Williams, and Tom 
Whistle—Kru-men, called Kru-boys. This is not 
upon the principle, as some suppose, of the grey¬ 
headed post-boy and drummer-boy: all the Kraoh 
tribes end their names in bo, e.g. Worebo, from 
“ wore,” to capsize a canoe ; Grebo, from the mon¬ 
key “gre” or “gle;” and many others. Bo be¬ 
came “boy,” even as Sipahi (Sepoy) became Sea- 
pie, and Sukhani (steersman) Sea-Coney. 
Gaboon is French, with a purely English trade. 
Gambia is English, with a purely French trade ; 
the latter is the result of many causes, but espe¬ 
cially of the large neighbouring establishments at 
Goree, Saint Louis de Senegal, and Saint Joseph 
de Galam. Exchanging the two was long held 
