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Title: Round the black man's garden
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colvile, Zélie Isabelle Richaud de Préville, lady
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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being a very plucky woman, felt so indig-nant that she took off her wedding-ring and threw itinto the sea rather than let the natives have it. In justice to the Kru boys, however, I must saythat they treat the stranger no worse than their ownfriends and relations. After one of them has beenworking up and down the coast for months or years,and has collected a nice little pile, and a fashion-able outfit, consisting of a tall hat, a red cottonumbrella, and the tunic of a Guards drummer-boy,he begins to yearn for his native village; so balanc-ing himself—or otherwise—in a keel-less dug-out offifteen inches beam, he bids farewell to civilisation,and charging the surf, lands w^ith a bump on hisnative shore. Immediately following him is agigantic roller, and in the excitement of the momentit is many chances to one that the welcoming crowdforget to drag the canoe out of the way with sufii-cient rapidity, and that she—bottom uppermost,—the tall hat, the umbrella, and the tunic, are all
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THE KRU boys RETURN HOxME. 309 gaily dancing in the surf. A score of strong armsare soon beating the water to their rescue, which isspeedily eflfected, without much advantage to therightful owner, but to the great joy of the luckyswimmers who secure the prizes. Then after toilingall these months away from home, the welcomewanderer cannot be allowed to burden himself withall those heavy bags that hang from his waist, andmany willing hands are stretched out to relieve himof his load, wdth the result that he re-enters hishome much in the condition in which Job enteredand expected to leave this world; nor does he againhave the pleasure of handling an umbrella or a gin-bottle until a fresh arrival from the ships of Christ-endom affords him also the opportunity of assistingat the home-coming of some one else. On our return home Major Macdonald had at onceto start for Opobo, where he was due to attenda palaver on the following morning. As nosteam-launch was at hand, he had to travel in anati

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