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Congoland : a book for young people (1920)

Smith, Kenred · London : Carey Press · leaf 35

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cut mth a shai-p little iron instrument. The cuts are painful, and very little boys and girls cry. Wlien the cutting is over, the wounds are washed, and something rubbed on. By-and-by the patterns must be cut all over again, and so on from time to time, but boys and girls are called cowards if they… … bore the side of the nose, and Cutting the Tribal Marks. 11

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