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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 290

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dergrowth and stunted forest, which afforded very good cover for an enemy, but which made pursuit almost impossible. The track, like all bush paths, was narrow, and admitted only of single-file marching; off the track the ground was a morass. Probably the Topoke of that locality had guilty… … BARUMBU NATIVE, BASOKO. which hit him in the back. Not a soul was visible, and no likely hiding-place at hand near enough to cover a spearman at the range at which this spear must have been thrown. So we tied the wounded man up as best we could, and proceeded. Not far off another man, also the last…

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