Note 149 — Chapter XVII

This is good testimony upon a point which only interest or the veriest ignorance would dispute. Almost every West African tongue testifies that the speakers consider white men supernatural beings on account of their vast superiority, in all the arts of life, to these poor pagans. The Krumen call Europeans Ku-be, or the ghost-tribe; the Efik tribe of Old Calabar, Mbum Ekpo, or spirit men, and the Mpongwe of the Gaboon River, M’buiri or ghost, and so on.