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... means . To understand it fully , the pur- pose for which the fugitives are required must be fully stated . " The King of Ashantee once a year assembles round him all the greater and lesser chieftains of his subject . tribes . All are ...
... means . To understand it fully , the pur- pose for which the fugitives are required must be fully stated . " The King of Ashantee once a year assembles round him all the greater and lesser chieftains of his subject . tribes . All are ...
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... means limited to monthly or annual customs . ' Whenever a man or woman of high station dies a certain large number of slaves are sacrificed to the fetish , the blood being poured over the burial pit . That treachery may never be wanting ...
... means limited to monthly or annual customs . ' Whenever a man or woman of high station dies a certain large number of slaves are sacrificed to the fetish , the blood being poured over the burial pit . That treachery may never be wanting ...
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... means escape , lest they should be caught for the fetish . Nor is this all . At certain periods of life elderly men are liable to be seized , simply on account of age or on some similar pretext , that they may be sacrificed . C " Now ...
... means escape , lest they should be caught for the fetish . Nor is this all . At certain periods of life elderly men are liable to be seized , simply on account of age or on some similar pretext , that they may be sacrificed . C " Now ...
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... means of obtaining information differed much as black differs from white . It becomes , therefore , exceedingly important that this fact should be made clear ; and as many of my readers are , I believe , still intensely interested in ...
... means of obtaining information differed much as black differs from white . It becomes , therefore , exceedingly important that this fact should be made clear ; and as many of my readers are , I believe , still intensely interested in ...
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... means been ignored . Your readers may remember that those who were engaged at the time when the expedition left England in the amiable occupation of throwing cold water upon it , had endeavoured to place Sir Garnet between the horns of ...
... means been ignored . Your readers may remember that those who were engaged at the time when the expedition left England in the amiable occupation of throwing cold water upon it , had endeavoured to place Sir Garnet between the horns of ...
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