In the History of British Empire's Expedition through Africa in the late 18th Century there is a story of a British Military General whose last name was Smith. On his journey he purchased six "slaves" and changed their names as most of the men were used to do in those days. General Smith named every young boy after their abilities. The muscular young boy was named "Stronghhold" because he was extremely strong, and his resistance was extremely out of the normal range, so he placed the burden of carrying the sacks and luggage. The smartest boy was called "Smartson", he was a polyglot, and he was compelled to walk on the right side of his hammock's head to be questioned and answer every single question the General had made. Next to "Smartson" was ""Quickdraw" whose ability was to defend himself as fast as he could with a weapon or even without any! In front of "Quickdraw" was "Longman" the General had named him due to the size of his foot ,that was bigger than the size of the General's wearing his boots, next to "Longman" was "Blabbermouth", the General named him that way because "Blabbermouth" was not noisy at all, but rather a quiet and shy boy. The sixth slave had one of the best ability back in that time, he was an excellent drawer, which made the General call him "Mr.Canvas". The only bad thing about "Mr. Canvas" was that we could never see him in any of those paintings because he was always painting them and everything was portrayed from his standing veiwpoint. This is one of the paintings that remains as evidence and as a proof of existence of General Smith's expedition in Africa.
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