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  Dear Doctor: I am sending you, inclosed, some pretty pebbles which I found the other day while cracking open oysters


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id: 21070
title: A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story
author: Collingwood, Harry
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  large ship was at that moment in the river taking on board a full cargo if you please, to pass the word for all hands to arm and man boats; and Fernan Vaz river, off which we arrived five days later, making the land time, thus, the rest of the boats having hove-to, it did not take us "Down helm, and run the boat in on the bank," ordered our new skipper. away--went about half an hour ago--but the rest of the wounded are doing moment that they saw the chief mate clear of the ship. either slaves or ships in the Fernan Vaz for some time to come. under way, I and my boat''s crew stood on the wharf and quietly watched matter of course, those of us who had been away in the boats at the time good half-mile to leeward of the ship, by which time, their quarrel, I


id: 23498
title: The Pirate Slaver: A Story of the West African Coast
author: Collingwood, Harry
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  "East-south-east, sir," answered the man for the second time. hastily leaving his boat and coming half-way up the gangway ladder deck, the man I had followed was holding open with one hand, while with way about the deck, or to reveal to a sharp eye a sail as far away as Ryan took a good long look at the barque, that was now about two points time it became evident that the schooner was fully as good off the wind Ryan--who like myself had remained on deck, diligently working away with colours like a good sensible man, he blazed away at us in return with a the ship kept away, when, after about an hour''s run, first one boat and half the distance between the brigantine and the ship, a man appeared in In due time I proceeded on board my old ship; and on reaching the deck


id: 25803
title: The Keepers of the King''s Peace
author: Wallace, Edgar
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  "Anyway, she''s coming, Bones," said Hamilton; "and she''s looking forward "That''s my dinky little religion, dear old Miss Hamilton," said Bones. "I''m under your jolly old orders, sir," Bones said with the air of an "Why ''good-bye,'' dear old Hamilton''s sister?" asked Bones. "O Bosambo," said Bones, in the river dialect, "this is sad news, for I "Your pity, dear old officer, is offensive," said Bones stiffly, "an'' I "Dear old Miss Hamilton," said Bones, "you saw me to-day as I really am. "O people," said Sanders, "you all know that under my King men may live "Viciously put, dear old officer, but, nevertheless, true," said Bones "Through the door, dear old officer," said the sarcastic Bones. "Painful as it is to undeceive you, dear old sir," said Bones, "We''ll get away as quickly as we can, Bones," Sanders said. "I didn''t tell him, dear old sir and superior captain," said Bones.


id: 5891
title: Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
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  in the true sense of the word, and form a great native-born white fish, for the great West African Bank, which fringes the coast in white man plantation-making, has come too close to him. leaving their gaunt roots exposed in midair." High-tide or lowtide, there is little difference in the water; the river, be it far great, broad, business-like-looking river entrances open on and of course this state of affairs is most common in nonslaveholding tribes like the Fan. Mission work was first opened upon the Ogowe by Dr. Nassau, the down river in a canoe and gave me good advice in Fan, and I got him Fan town called Efoua, where no white man or black trader had yet white men come to the bank, on the other side of the river, and call of the things a man, black or white, fails to do, whether for good


id: 5761
title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2
author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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  ruled as far as the Congo River, who used to eat in one house, Steaming onwards, at one mile off shore, we turned from southeast to south-west, and presently rounded the north-east point of the coast-line some 75 miles: Beginning with the Congo River, it dark-green waters tell us, we shall be in the Congo River. Into the Congo River.--the Factories.--trip to Shark''s Point.-the days when European ideas concerning the Congo River were called Zaire on the River Congo, to trade for elephants'' teeth, earldom of Sonho, bounded north by the Congo River and south by this beautiful country," The sea-like river wants nothing but trough of the Congo, and the landing-place of Banza Nokki below native travellers that the river 600 miles up country was still The language of the people on and near the Congo River is called


id: 5760
title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1
author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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  The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land. Landing at the Rio Gabão (Gaboon River).--le Plateau, the French natives called Pongára, and by the French Péninsule de MarieAmélie, shows a mere fringe of dark bristle, which is tree, based At the time of my visit, the Gaboon River had four English wanderings in Gorilla land, I often observed tall and mushroomshaped trees standing singly, and wearing the semblance of the the Rembwe River, the south-eastern line of the Gaboon fork, and number of sweet little water-courses break the shore-line as far Great and Little; Corisco Island, which we shall presently visit; Great and Little Elobi, called by old travellers Mosquito Yet the Mpongwe do not, like other tribes on the west saw during my three years upon the West African Coast,--a great The Bákele appeared to me very like the coast tribes, only


id: 12539
author: Corry, Joseph
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  coast of Africa, to command the interior commerce of the countries established to influence the trade of the foregoing rivers, form the The natives of Africa resident upon the coast, are uniformly considered as _Observations upon the natural Productions of the River Sierra Leone.--The _Observations upon the natural Productions of the River Sierra Leone.--The _Return to Bance Island.--General Observations on the Commerce, Religion, _Return to Bance Island.--General Observations on the Commerce, Religion, state of commerce upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the merchandize used Inhabitants.--The State of Barbarism and Slavery considered.--The Condition Inhabitants.--The State of Barbarism and Slavery considered.--The Condition customs, and country of Africa are indispensibly requisite, its chiefs and From all I have stated, the great importance of these countries, to open an What I have said relative to the present state of the natives of Africa, _Bance Island, River Sierra Leone, Coast of Africa,_

title:
  Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade


id: 12667
author: Huish, Robert
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  the following day Park reached Medina, the capital of the king of Having taken leave, he sent the king an order upon Dr. Laidley for three gallons of rum, and received in return a great great distance, Mr. Park proceeded to another watering place. white man had entered the king''s town, without having first paid the February, one of Ali''s slaves arrived, as he said, to conduct Mr. Park as far as Goomba, and demanded one garment of blue cotton cloth The next day, Mr. Park was conducted by the king''s order, to a hut On the following day, Mr. Park passed a town called Balaba, the chief men of the town gave them a small present, and every person of The following day, hoping to reach a town before night, they passed As soon as their canoe arrived at the landing place, the water king

title:
  Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa


id: 7937
author: Bridge, Horatio
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  Europe, along that coast, and of the native tribes, and their trade and New-Georgia Representative--A Slave-ship--Expedition up the St. Paul''s--Sugar Manufactory--Maumee''s beautiful grand-daughter--The Sleepy A large native tribe, the Grebo, dwells at Cape Palmas in the midst of the of New-York boys, at the landing of a foreign man-of-war''s boat. The natives are generally favorable to the slave-trade. interior, the native kings possess more power and assume greater state, large land-shells, which I brought on board a day or two ago. officers and men were carried off to them in the native canoes. Natives--Characteristics of English Merchant-Captains--Trade of England Natives--Characteristics of English Merchant-Captains--Trade of England attached to the vessel, and others trade-men, inhabiting the native towns. On the Gold Coast, each vessel employs a native who is called its Dutch Settlement at El Mina--Appearance of the Town--Cape Coast Dutch Settlement at El Mina--Appearance of the Town--Cape Coast

title:
  Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa


id: 35545
title: Sanders of the River
author: Wallace, Edgar
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  "King," said Sanders--he carried in his hand a rattan cane of familiar "Heard about the Isisi god?" he asked suddenly; and Sanders said that he "Lord," said the man who spoke, "at Isisi lives a god who breathes life; "People of the Isisi," said Sanders, "let no man move until the "Now," said Sanders, speaking very quickly, "let any man raise his In course of time came a strange white man through Sanders'' domain. "Take that man, sergeant," said Sanders sharply; and the Houssa gripped "Lord," said Sanders, looking into the eyes of the old man who sat on "White man," said the king, as rude hands pulled off the Commissioner''s "Yet if you live," said Sanders, "many other great kings will say, ''We "You go to-day, my man," said Sanders, lowering his voice till he spoke "Chief," said Sanders, "there is a dead white man in your territory, and


id: 36324
title: Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People
author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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  runs away.--The Man Gorilla shows fight.--He is killed.--His People are afraid.--Reach Akoonga''s Village.--King Olenda That evening I said, "Boys, let us go into the forest and look for us have a jolly good time in the woods, and kill as many gorillas, As I came near to look at my great prize, I felt that I would like to branches of a tree, not far from the dead body of the big gorilla. of the trees till we came near the female gorilla, which we saw just their young ones during the time I lived in the great forest of After a little while I came to look at the poor dead caterpillar, and "Akenda Mbani came to the king and said to him, ''I come to marry Arondo, when they came upon a huge elephant, who said, ''Let me pass, gorilla; people hollaing and shouting all the time, "The good spirit has come!


id: 38870
title: West African studies
author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
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  concerning the natives of West Africa in the minds of the general people at home who practically know no part of the West Coast names for one place in West Africa, because it leads people at home who moment he has time to think it over, what that white man''s thing really including man; but the African has not in West Africa, nor so far as I There is, as is in all things West African, a great deal of fetish known of cases of white men having small-pox in other West Coast places, Colonial Office does not know the natives nor the West African trade. on the natives, is a thing West Africa will not stand at all. three great riches of our West African possessions, the things that may rivers, about a day''s journey by canoe from the mouth of St. Bartholomew, is the chief town of a small tribe of people called the


id: 38670
title: For Jacinta
author: Bindloss, Harold
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  "Well," said Austin, with a little whimsical gesture of resignation, "Pshaw!" said Jacinta, and followed when Austin made way for her to one "Jacinta," said Brown, "knows a good deal about everything, and it "Well," said Austin, with a doubtful smile, "if you think I went "Ah!" said Austin, who was a little stirred, though he would not admit "Well," she said, "I almost think you owe Mr. Austin a little, too. "Jefferson is really a very good fellow," said Austin, with a smile. "Of course," said Jacinta, with a curious little sparkle in her eyes, "Isn''t that a little hard upon the man?" said Austin. "Ah," said Jacinta, with a little gasp, "I think I have seen enough. Jefferson looked at him with a little smile, and Austin saw that he "I don''t know of any reason," said Austin listlessly, and the man turned Jefferson looked at Austin with a little


id: 58900
title: Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
author: Nassau, Robert Hamill
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  food; I eat only animals." So, one day, Leopard went to search for Leopard only said, "Good." Then Tortoise asked, "But, where are you Tortoise, angry because Leopard has taken his wife, said to himself, Then Leopard called to him, "Come here!" "No!" said Rat, "I am in a On their way, they came to a wide river; and Leopard said to Rat, eat." Gazelle came, but said, "First, put out all the lights." Leopard Presently, Tortoise heard Leopard coming, and he said to Rat. Leopard took Rat''s body and went away with it to his town. Tortoise came to Dog''s end of the town and said to him, "Let Tortoise, as soon as he saw Leopard coming, said to him, "I''m going Tortoise replied, "You, Njâ you open the house!" But, Leopard said, and Man asked again, "Where is Leopard?" The Tortoise said, "Do you


id: 58947
title: Doctor Dolittle''s Post Office
author: Lofting, Hugh
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  Nearly all of the history of Doctor Dolittle''s post office took place "Doctor," said the little bird in a mysterious whisper, "we have "Good morning," said the Doctor, cracking open the top of a hard-boiled "Speedy would like to know," said the swallow, "how long you expect to "Very good, Doctor," said the swallow, turning to go. Now, it happened one day that the Doctor came to the post office, as "Well anyway thank goodness she rose in time!" said the Doctor, shaking "But, Doctor, birds and animals don''t send letters," said Speedy. After three days Speedy came to the Doctor and said: It was a great day at the Doctor''s post office when Cheapside, the "Oh, don''t let him tell one, Doctor," said Jip. "''I''ve just come from the Doctor''s office,'' said my brother. One day Gub-Gub came to the Doctor and said: "He''s there, Doctor--and he''s got the pearls, all right!" said she.


id: 52444
title: Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People
author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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  of wild animals, and the manners and way of life of savage men; and The king looked at me for a long time without saying a word. had gone a long way up the river, and reached a Shekiani village. On we went, till finally we came to a place where a great number of I was sitting under a very large tree, when, suddenly looking up, I saw Presently came the king, a ferocious-looking fellow. that they do not sell the bodies of their chiefs, kings, or great men; The first day we went out, the people of half a dozen villages met like men of the woods, so very wild were their looks. while looking at the water, I suddenly saw something strange coming had arranged and lighted the fires, our camp looked quite like a little The old king charged the people to take great care of his white man,


