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• He stopped his steamer at a village six miles from M'fa, and sent a party of Houssas to the village with a message The chief was to summon all eldermen, and all men responsible to the Government, the wearers of medals and the holders of rights, all landmen and leaders of hunters, the captains of spears, and the first headmen. —  Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
• The theory that the door was at the south has much in its favor, but there are several almost fatal objections to this conclusion If, however, we suppose that the entrance was in the south wall, the high walls still standing above the trail up the mesa would then recall the façades of other missions. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• Under one of my boxes was also discovered a lêfa, the most dangerous species of serpent in these countries It appears that most of the caravans that pass through this country are obliged to pay a certain gumruk to the prince of Aghadez. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
• Then they all learned songs together from tonic sol-fa, singing in a circle round the fire. —  Sons and Lovers
• In confirmation of this rivulet Leséfa, which is opposite Kotakota, or, as the Arabs pronounce it, Nkotakota, the chief is Mangkaka (Makawa), or as there is a confusion of names as to chief it may be Mataka, whose town and district is called Moembé, the town Pamoembe = Mamemba I rest content with Kingomango so far verifying the place at which he arrived two months after we had discovered Lake Nyassa. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

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