The Kroos are hefty boys and pretty good sailors, but they come from Liberia and there are regulations about their employment.

You must engage them on a contract, hold yourself accountable for their return and so forth.

All the same my notion is, Montgomery didn't mean to help." "Then we had better try the native headman he talked about." Brown smiled, "I've no use for bushmen, but didn't see much use in telling Montgomery I'd been on the Coast before.

For one thing, his boys were not all Kroos.

You know the Kroo by his blue forehead-stripe, but I saw two or three with another mark.