The slave trade began a couple generations before Christopher Columbus and there is a considerable influx of European in the gene pool. Because the Europeans did not tend to stay the majority of the population with mixed blood belonged to their maternal tribes. The tribal names following the reference to St. George d'Elmina are Dutch forms of those tribal names. The people of the d'Elmina village were of a community which had grown up around the slave port in service jobs. They spoke a "pidgin" Portuguese. It was a temptation to steal them but they were not liked by the other slaves and would be quickly missed by more established slave traders.