Just under the left shoulder of Africa, which juts out boldly into the Atlantic, as though to meet half way the right shoulder of South America, lie, between Sierra Leone and the Bight of Benin, the Slave Coast, the Ivory Coast, and the Gold Coast. It was the lure of gold and ivory that brought to these shores the enterprising traders who first ottered the African slave-holders a stable foreign market for the captives of bow and spear and knobkerrie. Out of this fetid armpit of the Dark Continent came the first black bondsmen to curse the Western world. Thence, across the narrowing ocean, but a night's flight for Walt Whitman's uMan-of-War-Bird' - ''At dusk that look'st on Senegal, at morn America'1- Portuguese and Spanish traders, but a few years after Columbus had set foot on San Salvador, transported their first human cargoes to the plantations of Brazil and the rich islands of the Caribbean. Here the labor of the blacks proved so profitable that the envious English soon en Table of Contents Foreword *; Gullah Stories; Noblesse Oblige 19; My Maussuh 24; An Antemortem Demise 29; The Lion of Lewisburg * 35; The Lion Killer 45; Old Barney 53; Billybedam 58; A Short Cut to Justice 64; Sam Dickerson 72; Simon the ''Squcrril" Hunter 82; The "Cunjuir That Came Back 87; The Raccoon Hunter 96; The Turkey Hunter 107; The "Gator Hunter 116; The '-Wiles That in the Women Are" 128; A ^icefield Idyll 134; The Dower House 142; At the Cross Uoads Store 150; Mingo the Drill Master 158; Old Harrison ICG; A Marriage of Convenience 174; The Plat-Eye 183; Old Pickett 190; The Lost Buck 202; Jim Moultrie's Divorce 212; Buh Alligettuh en' Buh Deer 21G; Buh Hawss en Buh Mule (a Fable) 219; Liss "Bin Eensult"' 221; The Retort Courteous 223; The Cat Was Crazy 225; A Congaree Water-Color 230; "Waiting Till the Bridegrooms Come 233; A Gullah's Tale of Woe 238; The Doctor Didn't "Exceed"' 242; The Lady Couldn't "Spec