Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 121
s, and exchangetheir tusks with thewhite merchantson the coast forcloth, guns, andpowder. The merchant,becoming a manof property, willwear a litde of thecloth, from thestore he has accu-mulated during hislifetime,tied roundhis waist, with oneend dragging in * ^■^ ™^^^- the mud three yards behind… … SIX YEARS IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 653 him preparatory to his being smoked before worked through the different well-known hunt-burial, and the powder and guns of the departed ing patches, when, passing through a UtUe stretchwill be used in firing salutes suitable to such an of long grass, a…
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