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" They were a human hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears, and other portions of the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. "
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society - Page 418
by American Geographical Society of New York - 1904
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The Dial, Volumes 22-23

Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1897 - 812 pages
...investigated, and tracked it to those bags, so I took down the biggest one, and carefully noted how the tie had been put around its mouth; for these things are...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. Replacing them, I tied the bag up, and hung it up again. I subsequently learnt...
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The Dial, Volumes 22-23

Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1897 - 808 pages
...investigated, and tracked it to those bags, so I took down the biggest one, and carefully noted how the tie had been put around its mouth; for these things are...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. Replacing them, I tied the bag up, and hung it up again. I subsequently learnt...
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons

Mary Henrietta Kingsley - Africa, West - 1897 - 812 pages
...bags, so I took down the biggest one, and carefully noted exactly how the tie tie had been put round its mouth ; for these things are important and often...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. Replacing them I tied the bag up, and hung it up again. I subsequently learnt...
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Travels in West Africa

Mary H. Kingsley - Africa, West - 1897 - 896 pages
...bags, so I took down the biggest one, and carefully noted exactly how the tie tie had been put round its mouth ; for these things are important and often...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. Replacing them I tied the bag up, and hung it up again. I subsequently learnt...
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby - Africa, West - 1897 - 814 pages
...mean a lot. I then shook its contents out in my hat, for fear of losing anything of value. They u-ere a human hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears,...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. Replacing them I tied the bag up, and hung it up again. I subsequently learnt...
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Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and ...

Robert Hamill Nassau - Ethnology - 1904 - 446 pages
...the country lying between the Azyingo branch of the Ogowe River and the RSmbwe branch of the Gabun River. On retiring at night, she had observed some...others only so-so and shrivelled. Replacing them, I tied the bag up, and hung it up again." It was well she noticed Another family medicine in the Batanga...
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 36

American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1904 - 860 pages
...things are important, and often mean a lot. I then shook its contents out in my hat. for fear of !v anything of value. They were a human hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears, >ther portions of the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others oniy so-so. .irivelled. Replacing...
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Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In ...

Robert Klitgaard - History - 2008 - 302 pages
...it down to a small bag hanging from one of the roof joists. She emptied the contents into her hat. "They were a human hand, three big toes, four eyes,...was fresh, the others only so-so, and shrivelled." Kingsley thought it "touching" that the Fangs should keep a little something of their victims by way...
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

Sara Mills - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 244 pages
...suppose and it had an unmistakably organic origin .... I tracked it down to one of those bags . ... 1 then shook its contents out in my hat for fear of...the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled . ... I subsequently learnt that although the Fans will eat their fellow friendly...
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Natural Selections: The African Wanderings of a Bemused Naturalist

Don Pinnock - Natural history - 2002 - 324 pages
...investigated, and tracked it to those bags, so I took down the biggest one and shook its contents into my hat, for fear of losing anything of value. They...hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears and other parts of the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shrivelled. I subsequently...
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