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"The kroomen let go the anchor without orders," he replied.
Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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While Commander Hillyar was arranging the boats so that they might keep up their fire as they retreated to the _Teazer_, some of the kroomen on board Mr Beecroft's _Victoria_ let go her anchor, and there she lay exposed entirely to the fire of the blacks.
Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
chained_bear commented on the word kroomen
"'You have also told the Doctor and me about the Kroomen, described as capital seamen, pilots for various stretches of the coast, intelligent and reliable.'
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'I have no fear for the Kroomen. There is a Kroo town in Sierra Leone with some hundreds of them, men I have known these five and twenty years; and they hate slavery—will have nothing to do with it.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 193
March 17, 2008