Affairs of West AfricaW. Heinemann, 1902 - 382 sivua |
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administration Arabic Ashanti Author Baghirmi Barth Belgian Berlin Act Bornu Britain British West Africa caravan Central Africa century Chad Chamber of Commerce chief Christian civilisation Clapperton cloth Colonial Office commercial concessionnaires cotton Crown 8vo Dahomey Demy 8vo district Domaine Privé Edition EDMUND GOSSE Emir Empire England Europe European existence expedition expenditure export trade fact favour Fcap forest France Frederick Lugard French Congo French Guinea Fulani Gambia German Gold Coast Government Hausa Illustrations important increase industry influence interest Islam Ivory Coast Kano Kanuri kernels King Leopold labour Lagos land Liverpool Mary Kingsley ment merchants miles Mohammedan Muslim native nature Negro Northern Nigeria pagan palm-oil Photogravure political population Portrait Powers produce race railway régime region revenue River rubber and ivory Senegal Sierra Leone slave slave-raiding Sokoto Songhay Southern Sudan territory tion Translated Tripoli tropical Volumes Western Africa Western Sudan William MacGregor
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Sivu 44 - And what are you come to see ?" — " The country." " What do you think of it ?" — " It is a fine country, but very sickly.
Sivu 58 - If we consider that this industry is not carried on here, as in Europe, in immense establishments, degrading man to the meanest condition of life, but that it gives employment and support to families without compelling them to sacrifice their domestic habits, we must presume that Kano ought to be one of the happiest countries in the world ; and so it is as long as its governor, too often lazy and indolent, is able to defend its inhabitants from the cupidity of their neighbours.
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