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Great Benin; its customs, art and horrors (1903)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 · Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, ltd. · leaf 24

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everyone he was coming, thenif a man had any slaves to sell he could send to farm to get them, but he only paid apoor price; one to four bags.^ These whitemen used to sit down at Gwato and there 1 Granville and Roth, Jour. Anthrop. Insl., Vol. xxviii., p. 105. 2 At the present day, a bag of cowries… … Fig. 7. Fig- 5—A. well executed bronze statuette of a European soldier at the time of the firstarrival of the Portuguese in the pose of firing off his flint lock gun. The details are well carriedout, but in many points the touch of the native artist makes itself visible : thus we have theshapeless…

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