ABSTRACT
ONE of the savages who worked with me had a son born to him, and a few days later he called together his neighbours in the huts and took counsel with them what name, which was both noble and terrifying, should be given to the child. These put forward names which did not please him, for he desired to name the child with one of the names of his forefathers, saying that a child so named would flourish and be cunning to catch slaves. His forefathers were named as follows: the first Krimen, the second Hemittan, the third Koem, the fourth I have forgotten. I thought when he spoke of Koem that he must have meant Cham, but Koem in their speech signifies the morning. I suggested that he should call the child by that name, since one of his forefathers was certainly so called, and this was done. They name their children without any baptism or circumcision.
