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| Title | In Afric's Forest and Jungle: Or, Six Years Among the Yorubans |
| Author | Richard Henry Stone |
| Publisher | Pickering & Inglis, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2006 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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