《To the Gold Coast for Gold》是2012年出版的圖書，作者是Burton, Sir Richard Francis。
基本介紹
- 中文名：To the Gold Coast for Gold
- 作者：Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- 出版時間：2012年1月
- 頁數：88 頁
- ISBN：9780217645614
- 定價：22.59 美元
內容簡介
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "CHAPTER XIV. FROM CAPE PALMAS" TO AXIM. I HAD no call to land at Cape Palmas. All my friends had passed away; the Rev. C. E. Hoffman and Bishop Payne, both in America. Mr. Potter, of the stores, still lives to eat rice and palm-oil in retirement; but with the energetic Macgill departed the trade and prosperity of the place. Senator John Marshall, of Marshall's Hotel, has also gone to the many, and the stranger's only place of refuge is a mean boarding-house. Much injury was done to the settlement by the so- called ' Grebo war.' These wild owners of Cape Palmas are confounded by Europeans with the true Krumen, their distant cousins. The tribal name is popularly derived from gre, or gri, the jumping monkey, and it alludes to a late immigration. A host of some 20,000 savages closely besieged the settlement and ravaged all the lands belonging to the intruders, especially the fine ' French farm.' Fighting ended with a ' treaty of peace and renewal of allegiance' (sic /) at Harper onFROM CAPE PALMAS TO AXIM. 63 March 1,1876, following the ' battle of Harper' (October 10, 1875). The latter, resulting from an attack on Grebo Big Town, proved a regular ' Bull's Run, ' wherein the citizens lost all their guns and ammunition, and where the Grebos slaughtered my true and trusty steward, Selim Agha. I must allow myself a few lines in memory of a typical man. Selim was a Nubian of lamp-black skin; but his features were Semitic down to the nose-bridge, and below it, like the hair, distinctly African: this mixture characterises the negroid as opposed to the negro. In the first fourth of the present century he was bought by Mr. Thurburn?venerabile nomen?of Alexandria, and sent for education to North Britain. There he learned to speak Scotch, to make turtle-soup, to stuff birds, to...
