Identifier: sherbroitshinter00alld (find matches)
Title: The Sherbro and its hinterland
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916
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Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and Co., limited New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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faith in his mysticpower, that he was willing to expose himself to great risksin stealing him, must be rewarded. When it is desired towork this devils powers on a growing crop, the image ismost carefully located in some secret spot, unknown to allexcept the proprietor, his wives and family. It is placedupon a small bamboo stool under a little palm-leaf templepurposely erected for it, and must be zealously guarded.Should it however be stolen and the theft reported to theTor-Tor Behmor or country fashion man, and he decidesthat the palaver must be given to the chief of the town,much money has to be paid. Should the matter be broughtinto the barri or native court, and the idol be found, itbecomes the property of the chief of the town, who is thejudge in the matter, and a fine will be inflicted for thelarceny ; while both sides will be fined for not notifying thechief of having in their possession the big man, as theidol is called. So the chief gets the idol, the fines andeverything else.
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From a PJiotograph by J. Thomson, Grosvenor St., London To J ace page 165. Fig- 54-—His Excellenxy Sir James Shaw Hay, K.C.-M.G., Governor ofTHE Colony of Sierra Leone 1888-1891. CHAPTER XVIII THROUGH THE HINTERLAND CHIEFS AND TREATIES I NOW propose to leave the Sherbro coast line anddevote a few chapters to my up-country tours. I have already said that the internecine wars of theMendi Hinterland chiefs, which had been of constantrecurrence, had greatly hindered the prosperity of theColony and seriously affected the revenue. It hadtherefore been resolved, during the administration of SirJ. Shaw-Hay, K.C.M.G., 1888-91, to adopt a firm andgreatly extended policy for the interior. The first stepstaken were the appointing of two Travelling Commissionersand the establishment of a Frontier Police Force. I was one of the Commissioners. In my official capacityI took over the south-eastern or Sherbro side, and at oncearranged to penetrate into the remote parts where nowhite man had ever then

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