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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 224

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4 Cbe Curse of Central Bftica* 172 employes of the State who were posted on the N’giri River. Having claimed that the capita station was outside the concession, and, therefore, State property, these white men, with a number of troops, attacked and destroyed Lida — a proceeding followed, first, by a… … MANYEMA WOMAN. I am afraid that, even though exhorted thereto by the most devoted apologists, the State would hesitate to submit to the judgment of civilization the papers dealing with this affair. In the course of the dispute and, I believe, the investigation also, the State and company’s agents…

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