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Abeokuta able Africa ANDERSON appeared Areh army arrival Bashorun brought called camp canoe carried chief Christian Cloth compound covered dangerous dark Ebaddan EDINBURGH Ejahyay enemy English entered escape eyes face feel feet fire followed foreign forest friends gate gave girls give given grass greatly hand head heard heart horse Illustrations instructive interesting killed kind king knew Lagos learned leave light lived looked MARY STREET matter miles mission missionary morning native nearly never night OLIPHANT once passed Phillips present Price reason returned seemed sent showed side slave soldiers sometimes soon sound story taken tell things thought told took town trees valuable volume walls whole wife women Yorubans young
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| Title | In Afric's [!] Forest and Jungle: Or Six Years Among the Yorubans |
| Author | Richard Henry Stone |
| Publisher | Anderson & Ferrier, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2006 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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