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The curse of Central Africa (1903)

Burrows, Guy, Canisius, Edgar. Campaign amongst cannibals, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R.A. Everett & Co. · leaf 203

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as if all the others were deaf as posts. Sometimes at Monjoa my men carried their discussions into the night also, with the result that I seized a heavy club I kept handy for the purpose, and hit the first debater I could reach. Then they all ran behind their houses and hid, but talked no more. I… … ARABISED NATIVE many lessons, expounded with the aid of the club, that they showed themselves at all qualified to grasp the sense of my tactics. Early in July I received notice that the commissaire de district was shortly coming up country to personally take com- mand of an “ important ” expedition…

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