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The Tornado. 
some two miles below the former, are those hated 
and hating rivals, Louis Town, Qua Ben, and 
Prince Krinje, the French settlements. The latter 
is named after a venerable villain who took in 
every white man with whom he had dealings, till 
the new colony abolished that exclusive agency, 
that monopoly so sacred in negro eyes, which here 
corresponded with the Abbanat of the Somal. 
Mr. Wilson (p. 252) recounts with zest a notable 
trick played by this “ little, old, grey-headed, 
humpback man” upon Captain Bouet-Willaumez, 
and Mr. W. Winwoocl Reade (chap, xi.) has ably 
dramatized “ Krinji, King George and the Com¬ 
mandant.” On another occasion, the whole popu¬ 
lation of the Gaboon was compelled by a French 
maivo’-war to pay “ Prince Cringy’s ” debts, and 
he fell into disfavour only when he attempted to 
wreck a frigate by way of turning an honest 
penny. 
But soon we had something to think of besides 
the view. The tumultuous assemblage of dark, 
dense clouds, resting upon the river-surface in 
our rear, formed line or rather lines, step upon 
step, and tier on tier. While the sun shone 
treacherously gay, a dismal livid gloom palled the 
eastern sky, descending to the watery horizon ; 
and the estuary, beneath the sable hangings which 
began to depend from the cloud canopy, gleamed 
with a ghastly whitish green. Distant thunders 
