THE BENIN TRIBES.
Locality.—The sea-coast on the Bight of Benin. Conterminous with the Whidah and Yarriba.
The peculiar distribution of the Mandingos must now be considered, along with the configuration of the Guinea coast, and, the imperfectly-known range of highlands, which, at irregular distances from the ocean, runs nearly parallel with it; this range of highlands being the assumed watersheds of the following rivers between Sierra Leone and the western frontier of the Fantí country—the rivers Jong, Gallinas, Cape Mount, St. Paul's, St. John's, Cestos, Lagos, Negros, Costa. All these are inconsiderable, indicating that the elevations in which they rise are near the coast. On the other hand, in Ashantí and Dahomey, the rivers are of considerable magnitude, and indicate that the mountain range in which they rise (the Kong mountains) is far inland.
Now the low coast is the area of the following sections of a typically Negro population.
THE GREBO.
Synonym.—Cru, or Cruman.
Locality.—The Grain Coast.
Conterminous with the Vei, and other South-Mandingo dialects, north; with the Avekvom, south.
Religion.—Paganism.
Physical conformation.—Typically Negro.