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- 12539
- author: Corry, Joseph
- title: Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade
- date: None
- words: 44830
- flesch: 44
- summary: They may properly be called the nurses and warriors of the kingdom; they urge their fellow subjects in the _first_ state to labour, they inspect the construction of the interior apartments, repel all attacks from enemies, and devour them with fury; and may be considered as the standing army of the state. an act of oblivion is passed relative to her former conduct; but where the crime of witchcraft is included, slavery is uniformly the consequence: those accused as partners of her guilt are obliged to undergo the ordeal by _red water_, redeem themselves by slaves, or go into slavery themselves.
- keywords: 1st; abolition; abundance; addition; advantages; africa; africans; agricultural; air; alimami; anchor; animals; appearance; approach; armed; arrival; arts; attendants; attention; authority; avarice; bance; barbarism; barbarous; bay; bearing; beings; best; black; board; body; branches; british; bug; buildings; bunda; calculated; cape; captain; caulker; change; chapter; character; charms; chiefs; circle; circumstances; civilization; civilized; claims; climate; cloth; coast; coffee; colony; colour; commerce; commercial; common; company; condition; consequence; considerable; consideration; construction; contemplate; continued; convoy; cotton; countries; country; customs; day; days; death; defence; degree; description; different; diseases; distance; distinguished; district; doubt; dry; earth; effect; eligible; endeavours; enemies; enemy; england; enterprise; entrance; establishment; estimation; europe; europeans; evil; example; excellent; excite; existence; export; extended; extensive; extent; extraordinary; facility; factories; feet; ferocious; fertile; fetish; fine; following; foolahs; force; foregoing; form; free; french; gambia; general; globe; god; good; goree; government; governor; great; greater; gris; guard; habits; hands; happy; head; heat; high; highest; hours; house; humanity; idea; illustration; immense; important; improved; inches; indies; indigo; industry; influence; information; inhabitants; insects; instruments; intellectual; intelligence; intercourse; interests; interference; interior; investigation; iron; island; isles; ivory; jago; jealousies; kind; king; kingdom; knowledge; known; labour; language; large; late; laws; leaves; length; leone; letter; life; little; local; logo; long; lord; lordship; loss; magnitude; mahomet; majesty; man; mandingos; manners; maritime; marraboo; means; measures; men; miles; military; mind; mixture; mode; months; morning; mud; mysteries; narrow; nations; natives; natural; nature; necessary; negro; negroes; new; night; noonez; notice; number; numerous; objects; observations; occasion; officers; open; operation; order; page; palaver; palmas; passage; peculiar; people; perfect; period; personal; piece; place; plants; pleasure; point; policy; political; pongo; population; portion; position; possession; powerful; powers; practicable; present; principal; principles; process; produce; productions; productive; property; protection; public; purposes; purrah; quality; quantity; quarter; queen; race; red; regret; regular; relative; religion; remarks; requisite; residence; resources; result; return; rice; river; roads; royal; safe; said; savage; season; senegal; service; ship; shore; sierra; sierra leone; similar; singular; situated; situation; size; skin; slave; slavery; sloop; small; smart; society; soil; sovereign; species; spirit; square; state; strong; subject; substance; sugar; sun; superior; superstitious; surface; system; taste; thing; time; tobacco; tongue; town; trade; tree; trial; tribes; tropical; undertaking; united; utmost; valuable; variety; verde; vessels; view; visit; want; wars; water; wealth; west; white; wild; windward; windward coast; wine; wise; women; wood; world; years; | |; |gurum; |to; |tofot
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- 12667
- author: Huish, Robert
- title: Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa
- date: None
- words: 310304
- flesch: 61
- summary: The Arabs also dispose here of sundry commodities that have become obsolete in the north; the cast-off dresses of the mamelukes and other great men, and old sword-blades from Malta. Like other great men, who sometimes speak a great deal, without much meaning or sense being discoverable in their oration, the Eyeo chief began his speech by saying that he was very glad that he now saw a white man, and he doubted not that white man was equally glad to see him, and then, pointing to the various parts of his dress, he said, This cloth is not made in my country; this cap is of white man's velvet; these trousers are of white man's nankeen; this is a white man's shawl; we get all good things from white man, and we must therefore be glad when white man come to visit our country.
- keywords: 20th; 2nd; abdallah; absence; abundance; acceptable; account; accustomed; acquaintance; acquainted; actions; active; adams; addition; admiration; adooley; advanced; advantage; affected; affection; afraid; africa; afternoon; agreeable; alarm; alarmed; ali; amber; amusement; anchor; ancient; animals; answer; anxiety; anxious; apartment; apparel; apparent; appearance; apprehension; approach; april; arabic; arabs; armed; arms; army; arrangements; arrival; arrows; articles; aspect; asses; assistance; association; assured; astonishment; atlantic; attack; attempt; attendants; attention; august; authority; aware; badagry; baggage; bambarra; bananas; banks; barbary; barca; bare; bashaw; beads; bearing; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; behaviour; beings; belief; bello; benin; best; better; bidjie; black; blessing; blood; blue; board; boat; bodies; body; bonny; boo; book; boossa; borders; bore; borgoo; bornou; bow; bowl; box; boy; boys; bracelets; branches; brass; breadth; breakfast; breast; breeze; brig; british; broken; brother; building; bullock; business; buttons; caboceer; calabash; calling; camels; camp; canoe; capital; captain; caravan; care; carriers; carrying; case; castle; celebrated; central; centre; ceremony; certain; chain; change; channel; chapter; character; charms; chief; children; christian; circle; circumstance; cities; city; civilization; civilized; clapperton; clarence; clay; clear; climate; close; cloth; clothes; coast; coffle; cold; colour; coloured; comfort; comfortable; coming; command; commander; commercial; common; communication; companions; company; complete; compliment; condition; conduct; confidence; confined; confusion; congo; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; consul; contempt; continent; continual; continued; contrary; conversation; convinced; cool; coral; corn; costume; cotton; countenance; countries; country; countrymen; courage; course; court; covered; covering; creatures; crew; cries; crossed; crossing; crowd; cry; curiosity; curious; current; custom; cut; dahomy; daily; damaggoo; daman; dancing; danger; dangerous; dark; dates; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; death; december; decided; deep; degree; delay; delight; delighted; demand; demba; denham; departure; description; desert; deserted; desire; destruction; determined; different; difficulties; difficulty; dignity; direction; dirty; disagreeable; discoveries; discovery; display; disposed; disposition; distance; distant; distinct; distinguished; distress; distressing; dollars; domestic; dominions; door; dooty; double; doubt; dozen; drawing; dreaded; dreadful; dress; dressed; drink; drummer; drums; dry; duke; dust; duties; duty; dwelling; early; earth; east; eastern; eastward; easy; eating; eboe; effect; efforts; egga; eggs; elephants; empire; end; endeavoured; enemies; enemy; engaged; england; english; enterprise; enterprising; entrance; equal; escape; escort; etiquette; eunuch; european; evening; events; evident; evil; examination; example; excellent; exception; excessive; exchange; excited; exertion; exhausted; existence; expectations; expected; expedition; experienced; exposed; expression; extended; extensive; extent; extraordinary; extreme; eyeo; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; fallen; family; fancy; farewell; fashion; fast; fatal; fate; father; fatigue; favour; favourable; favourite; fear; feathers; features; february; feeling; feet; fellatas; fellow; female; fernando; fertile; fetish; fever; fezzan; figures; finding; fine; fingers; finished; fire; firing; fish; fixed; flat; flocks; floor; followers; following; following day; food; foot; force; forday; forest; formidable; forms; fowls; free; french; frequent; fresh; friendly; friends; friendship; frontier; funda; future; gadado; gambia; gana; gate; general; gentleman; geographical; george; giving; glad; glass; gloomy; goats; god; going; gold; good; government; governor; grand; granite; grave; great; great number; great river; greater; greatest; green; guide; guilty; guinea; gun; guns; habitation; hair; half; hands; handsome; happy; hateeta; head; health; heart; heavy; height; help; high; higher; highest; hills; history; hitherto; hold; hole; home; honour; hope; horneman; horns; horror; horseback; horsemen; horses; hospitality; host; hot; hours; house; houssa; huge; human; hundreds; hunger; husband; hut; huts; idea; ignorance; ignorant; illness; immediate; immense; importance; inches; inclination; inclined; indian; indifference; indigo; individual; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; inhabited; inquiries; inside; instance; instructions; instruments; intelligence; intended; intention; intercourse; interest; interesting; interior; interpreter; interview; introduction; invitation; iron; island; ivory; jacket; january; jarra; jealousy; jenna; jobson; john; johnson; journey; joy; june; kaarta; kafila; kano; karfa; kashna; kasson; katunga; khaloom; kiama; kind; kindness; king; king boy; kingdom; kirree; knees; knowing; knowledge; known; koolfu; koran; kowries; kroomen; labour; laden; ladies; lady; laidley; lake; lander; landing; landlord; language; large; largest; late; latitude; laugh; lead; leave; left; legs; length; letters; level; liberty; lies; lieutenant; life; like; likely; likewise; line; lion; lips; little; live; liverpool; loaded; london; long; longer; looking; looks; loose; lord; loss; lost; loud; love; luggage; lyon; mahomet; mahommedan; majesty; major; making; mallams; man; mandara; manner; mansa; mansolah; mansong; manufacture; march; market; marks; master; mats; meal; meaning; means; measure; meet; meeting; melancholy; men; merchants; mere; message; messenger; middle; midnight; midst; miles; military; milk; mind; minutes; miserable; missionaries; mode; mogadore; moment; monarch; money; months; moon; moorish; moors; morning; morocco; morrow; mother; mountains; mourzouk; movements; mud; multitude; music; musicians; muskets; naked; narrative; narrow; nations; natives; natural; nature; near; nearer; neat; necessary; necessity; neck; needles; negro; negroes; neighbourhood; neighbouring; neighbours; new; news; niger; night; noble; noise; north; northern; notice; nouffie; november; number; numerous; nun; nuts; nyffee; o'clock; obie; object; obliged; occasion; offer; officers; oil; old; ones; open; operation; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; ornaments; ostrich; oudney; outside; owner; painful; pair; palaver; palm; papers; park; particular; parties; party; pascoe; pass; passage; past; patashie; path; pay; peculiar; people; perfect; period; permission; person; personage; personal; piece; pistols; place; plain; pleasant; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; plenty; plunder; point; pointed; poor; population; populous; portion; portuguese; possession; possible; pounds; power; powerful; practice; prayer; prepared; presence; present; pretty; priest; prince; principal; prisoners; private; proceeding; procure; produce; progress; promised; proof; property; prophet; prospect; protection; provinces; provisions; public; punishment; purchase; purpose; pursuit; quantity; quarter; queen; question; quorra; rabba; race; ragged; rains; rank; reach; readiness; ready; real; rear; reason; received; reception; recovered; refreshment; regard; regarded; regions; regret; regular; relations; relative; religion; religious; remainder; remaining; remains; remarkable; repair; report; repose; request; residence; resolution; respect; rest; result; return; rice; richard; ride; ridiculous; rings; ritchie; river; road; rocks; room; round; route; royal; rude; rum; running; saddle; safety; said; sail; sale; salt; salutation; salute; sand; sansanding; satisfaction; satisfied; savage; saying; scattered; scene; science; sea; seat; second; secure; sego; senegal; sense; servant; service; set; settlement; severe; sexes; shade; sheep; sheik; shells; ship; short; shoulder; sick; sickness; sides; signs; silence; silk; silver; similar; simple; singing; single; singular; sitting; situated; situation; size; skill; skin; slavery; slaves; slight; slightest; small; smaller; society; sockatoo; sockna; soil; solemn; solitary; sons; soudan; south; southern; southward; sovereign; space; spanish; speak; speaking; spears; species; spirit; spot; square; standing; state; statement; stay; steps; stibbs; sticks; stock; stone; stop; stories; story; strangers; stream; streets; strength; striking; strings; strong; style; subject; success; successful; sudden; suffering; sufficient; sultan; sum; sun; sunset; superior; superstitious; supper; supply; support; supposed; surface; surprise; sword; tall; taste; teeth; tents; termination; terms; territory; terror; thatched; thick; thing; thirst; thought; thousands; throw; tibboos; tide; timbuctoo; time; tired; tobacco; tobe; token; town; track; trade; traders; trading; traffic; train; travellers; travelling; treatment; trees; tribes; trifling; tripoli; troops; trouble; trousers; true; truth; tuaricks; turban; turning; unable; understand; undertaking; unfortunate; unknown; usual; utmost; vain; valley; valuable; value; variety; vast; venerable; vessel; vicinity; victims; view; village; violence; violent; visit; visitors; voice; voyage; wadinoon; wait; walk; walking; walled; walls; want; war; washed; watch; water; wawa; way; weak; wear; weather; week; welcome; west; western; westward; white; white men; wide; widow; wife; wild; wind; wine; wish; wishes; wives; women; wonderful; wood; wooden; words; work; world; worse; worthy; wowow; writing; yams; yaoorie; yard; yarriba; yarro; years; young; youri; youriba; zeg; zuma
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- 21070
- author: Collingwood, Harry
- title: A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story
- date: None
- words: 102915
- flesch: 59
- summary: For, from your account of him, I judge the skipper of the _Virginia_ to be an exceptionally vindictive individual, with a very strong animus against us `Britishers,' as he calls us, and such men are apt to be dangerous when provoked, as he will pretty certainly be when he discovers that you are following and watching him. The next day, accordingly, the party crossed to the mainland to complete the preparation of the ambuscade, returning, in good time for dinner, with the report that all was now done, and that the spot was ready for occupation at a moment's notice.
- keywords: able; adrift; affair; african; afternoon; air; ama; american; anchor; anxious; appearance; approach; arm; armed; arrival; atlantic; atmosphere; attack; attempt; attention; away; bad; banda; bank; bare; barque; barracoon; beginning; bells; belt; best; better; big; bit; black; blood; blow; board; boat; boatswain; body; bows; breakfast; breeze; brigantine; british; broad; bush; business; cabin; camp; canoe; canvas; captain; capture; care; cargo; carrying; case; cauffle; certain; chance; channel; chapter; character; charge; chief; circumstances; clear; close; coast; coming; command; companion; company; complete; conclusion; condition; conversation; copplestone; couple; course; craft; creek; crew; cupid; current; cut; d'ye; dark; darkness; dat; dawn; day; daylight; days; dead; death; deck; deep; dem; determined; dick; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; dolphin; door; doubt; doubtless; dozen; drink; dry; duty; eastern; effect; end; enemy; english; entire; eros; escape; evening; evident; excellent; expedition; extent; eyes; face; fact; factory; fairly; fall; far; fast; fate; father; fathoms; favart; fear; feeling; feet; fell; fellow; fine; fire; flying; following; food; fore; forecastle; fortescue; free; french; fresh; friend; gig; girl; glance; glancing; glass; good; great; greater; guards; guns; hair; half; hand; hard; harrison; hat; head; heavy; helm; help; high; hint; hold; hope; horizon; hoskins; hour; house; hove; hull; hurried; hutchinson; idea; individual; information; informed; instant; instructions; interior; island; jack; jib; journey; keene; keeping; kind; king; ladder; lads; lagoon; land; large; late; launch; lay; leave; left; length; leone; leroy; lieutenant; life; lightning; like; likely; line; lips; little; long; longboat; longer; look; looking; loose; loss; lost; mafuta; main; man; mangroves; manner; marcel; masts; mate; matter; meal; means; middle; midshipmen; miles; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; moon; morning; mouth; movements; mud; narrow; nature; near; necessary; need; new; news; night; notice; nugent; number; o'clock; oars; object; officer; olomba; open; opportunity; order; pain; pair; papers; particular; party; passage; past; people; perfect; perry; piece; place; plan; plenty; point; poop; poor; position; possibility; possible; power; preparations; presence; present; pretty; prisoners; prize; progress; psyche; pumps; purchase; purpose; quarter; question; quick; rail; reach; ready; reason; reply; report; rest; result; return; rigged; rigging; river; room; round; royal; running; sail; sand; satisfied; savages; scene; schooner; sea; search; second; set; sharp; sheets; ship; short; sierra; signal; silence; single; sir; sitting; size; skipper; sky; slave; slavers; sleep; slightest; slip; small; sounds; space; spanish; spear; spit; spot; squadron; square; standing; state; stern; story; straight; stranger; stream; strength; strong; success; sudden; sun; sunset; supply; sure; surprise; suspicion; tasker; telescope; tell; thanks; thick; thing; thought; time; topgallant; topmast; tourville; town; trade; tree; true; unfortunate; utmost; vessel; victims; view; violent; virginia; voice; want; watch; water; weather; west; wharf; white; wide; wind; windward; word; work; wounded; wreck; yards; yew; young
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- 23498
- author: Collingwood, Harry
- title: The Pirate Slaver: A Story of the West African Coast
- date: None
- words: 105092
- flesch: 59
- summary: And having duly impressed this upon them, I gave them further to understand that, should it ever happen that other white men fell into their hands, they would be expected to treat them with the utmost kindness and consideration, upon pain of condign punishment should they fail to do so, and that upon delivering any such whites, safe and sound, to the first warship that might happen to enter the river, they would be handsomely rewarded. To this the chief replied by inquiring what white men we referred to; he knew nothing about white men, and indeed had never seen any except ourselves.
- keywords: able; abreast; absence; action; african; afternoon; air; alive; anchor; answer; anxiety; anxious; apparent; appearance; approach; armed; atmosphere; attack; attempt; attention; aware; bad; banana; bangalore; bank; barque; barracouta; bates; bells; belt; best; better; black; blood; blow; blowing; blue; board; boats; boatswain; boom; bow; bows; boy; breeze; brief; brig; brigantine; brilliant; british; broad; broadside; bulwarks; bunk; bush; business; cabin; calm; canvas; captain; capture; care; careful; cargo; case; certain; chance; channel; chapter; character; charge; chart; chief; clear; close; clouds; coast; colours; coming; command; companion; company; concerned; conclusion; condition; congo; considerable; continued; course; craft; creek; crew; cries; cut; danger; dark; darkness; dat; day; days; dead; deal; deck; deep; delicate; delight; determined; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; door; double; doubt; draught; dugdale; duty; east; easy; edge; effect; enemy; english; entire; escape; evening; evident; expedition; extent; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; felicidad; fellow; felt; fierce; fine; fire; following; food; foot; fore; forecastle; forthwith; forward; francesca; fresh; friend; gale; gangway; gentlemen; gig; glass; god; good; gowland; grape; great; ground; guns; half; hand; handsome; hard; harry; hatches; hatchway; head; heavy; helm; help; high; hold; home; hope; horizon; hot; hour; hove; human; idea; important; inch; information; instant; islands; jib; job; jose; knife; knots; lad; ladder; lads; land; lantern; large; late; leave; leeward; left; length; leone; lieutenant; life; light; lightning; like; likely; line; little; lives; lobo; long; longer; look; looking; loss; lost; lot; luff; main; making; man; manner; mast; matadi; mate; matter; maxwell; means; mendouca; mere; midnight; miles; mind; minutes; moment; moon; morning; movements; naked; narrow; near; nearer; necessary; need; negroes; new; news; northward; o'-war; oars; object; occasional; oil; open; opening; opinion; opportunity; order; overboard; overhead; party; passage; passengers; past; pedro; people; perfect; pick; pierrepoint; pirates; pistol; place; point; pointed; poop; poor; port; portuguese; position; possession; possible; power; prepared; presence; present; prisoners; progress; proper; purpose; quarter; question; quick; rain; reach; ready; reason; reply; report; rest; result; return; rich; rigged; rigging; river; roll; room; rose; run; running; rush; ryan; safe; sail; satisfied; savages; save; scene; schooner; sea; search; second; secure; senor; service; set; shape; sharp; sheets; ship; short; showing; sierra; sign; silence; simpson; single; sir; skipper; sky; skylight; slaves; sleep; slip; small; smart; soft; sorry; sound; south; space; spanish; speed; spot; spread; squall; square; standing; starboard; state; steady; steering; stern; steward; story; straight; stranger; stream; strength; strong; success; sufficient; sun; sunset; sure; surface; surprise; suspicion; sweeps; task; tell; think; thought; thunder; time; topgallant; topsail; town; trees; true; turn; unfortunate; unhappy; use; utmost; vessel; view; visible; voice; want; watch; water; way; weather; welcome; west; white; wide; wind; windward; wish; word; work; working; worse; yards; yonder; young
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- 25803
- author: Wallace, Edgar
- title: The Keepers of the King's Peace
- date: None
- words: 54831
- flesch: 84
- summary: Put your faith in old Bones. Play the game yourself, dear old Bones, she mimicked him.
- keywords: abiboo; abid; accounts; afraid; afternoon; ahmet; akasava; ali; answer; arm; arms; army; arrival; ask; ass; attitude; bad; bank; beach; beasts; beautiful; bed; bend; better; big; bird; black; blue; board; boat; body; bones; book; boru; bosambo; bottle; box; boy; breath; brother; brown; bucongo; bush; cabin; canoe; captain; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; chief; child; children; city; close; coast; cold; colhemos; coming; commissioner; company; corklan; country; course; cross; curious; cut; dance; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dear old; death; deck; deep; desire; devils; dialect; dickens; dignity; dinner; doctor; door; drink; drip; duc; earth; east; edge; end; english; evidence; evil; excellency; experience; eyed; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; feet; feller; fellow; figure; fine; finished; fire; fish; folk; foot; footnote; forest; free; friend; game; ghosts; girl; glass; god; goin'; good; government; governor; great; greater; grey; gulabala; half; hamilton; hamilton bones; hand; head; headman; headquarters; heart; helmet; henry; high; hill; hold; hope; hot; hour; house; houssas; human; hut; idea; information; iron; isisi; island; journey; justice; karata; kind; king; kulumbini; l'mandi; lady; land; large; launch; law; lay; leave; left; leg; leopard; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; live; long; look; lord; love; lower; m'fusi; m'gimi; m'lama; mad; magic; man; manner; master; mean; men; message; method; middle; miles; mind; minutes; miss; miss hamilton; moment; moon; morjaba; morning; morrow; mother; mountains; mouth; muchini; n'gombi; native; near; need; new; news; night; nodded; nose; ochori; officer; old; old bones; old man; old officer; old sir; open; order; palaver; paper; party; patricia; patricia hamilton; people; pipe; place; plan; pocket; point; poor; pretty; question; ranabini; ready; red; remarkable; reply; residency; returned; river; room; round; run; s'gono; s'kobi; salt; sanders; sandi; save; saying; scene; sea; second; secret; self; senhor; sense; sentry; servant; service; set; ship; shot; shoulders; sick; silence; silly; silver; simple; sir; sister; sleep; sleeping; small; smile; sokala; solemn; son; sorry; sort; spears; spirits; square; state; stoep; stores; story; straight; strange; stream; subject; sun; superior; sure; table; talk; teeth; tell; terrible; territories; territory; things; think; thinking; thought; thrust; tibbetti; time; tongue; tree; trouble; true; truth; turning; unexpected; verandah; village; voice; wafa; war; warriors; water; way; ways; week; white; white man; wife; wiggle; wild; window; wireless; wise; wish; witch; woman; wonderful; wood; word; work; wrong; year; yoka; young; zaire
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- 35545
- author: Wallace, Edgar
- title: Sanders of the River
- date: None
- words: 58921
- flesch: 83
- summary: Long before he was called upon by the British Government to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn; he had met the Basuto, the Zulu, the Fingo, the Pondo, Matabele, Mashona, Barotse, Hottentot, and Bechuana. By all the laws of white men, he said, I have done wrong to Sandi, because he has told me I must not fight, and, behold, I have destroyed my uncle, who was a dog, and I have driven the chief of the Akasava into the forest.
- keywords: abiboo; afraid; africa; akasava; answer; arm; arms; away; bad; bank; bare; beach; beat; bed; bell; best; better; big; black; blood; blue; board; boat; body; bosambo; box; boy; brass; british; broad; broken; brother; bush; camp; canoe; captain; carriers; carter; case; centre; certain; chair; chapter; chief; child; children; chop; city; cloth; coast; come; coming; commissioner; commissioner sanders; correspondent; councillors; country; course; crops; curious; cursed; custom; cuthbert; dance; dancing; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deck; desire; devils; die; district; doctor; door; doubt; dull; edge; elder; elebi; end; england; english; evidence; expedition; eyes; face; fact; far; father; fear; feet; fetish; fever; find; fire; fish; folk; fool; forest; friend; george; ghosts; girl; goats; god; gods; gold; good; government; grave; great; great king; greater; green; grey; guard; gun; half; hand; hanging; happy; hate; head; headquarters; heart; hidden; high; hill; home; hon; honour; hour; house; houssas; human; hunting; husband; hut; imgani; interest; interpreter; isisi; ivory; journey; judgment; justice; kill; killing; kind; king; koli; koto; land; lataki; law; lay; left; leg; leopard; lies; life; like; line; lips; little; little man; live; london; lonely; long; look; lord; love; lukati; lulungo; m'lino; mad; magic; mainward; man; manner; march; master; matters; maxim; means; men; message; messenger; middle; miles; mind; missionary; moment; monrovia; months; moon; morning; n'gombi; native; near; neck; need; new; news; night; nose; o'sako; ochori; official; olari; old; old man; open; order; page; palaver; party; path; people; peter; place; point; poor; presents; puck; punishment; puzzled; question; reason; red; report; return; rising; river; round; salt; sanders; sandi; sato; save; saying; search; second; secret; sense; sergeant; servant; shame; ship; short; shoulder; sickness; sign; silence; silent; skin; sleep; sleeping; small; soldiers; son; spear; special; spies; station; stay; steamer; stick; stone; stories; story; straight; strange; stream; street; strong; suffering; sun; sure; tackle; taking; talk; tebeki; tent; territory; things; thinking; thought; time; time sanders; tiny; tongue; torrington; tree; tribe; trouble; true; truth; view; village; voice; want; war; warriors; water; way; week; wheel; white; white man; wife; wild; wise; wish; witch; wives; woman; wonderful; wood; word; work; worth; wrong; years; yitingi; young; young man; zaire
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- 36324
- author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
- title: Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People
- date: None
- words: 69033
- flesch: 87
- summary: We had in company many great men. At other times we would see a snake running away before us, or we would meet a strange insect or a queer butterfly.
- keywords: 12mo; 16mo; able; adouma; advanced; afraid; africa; akenda; animal; antelope; apingi; appearance; arm; arms; arondo; ashira; baby; bakalai; banks; beads; beast; beautiful; bed; berries; better; big; birds; bite; black; blood; boars; bodies; body; book; boys; branches; bridge; bright; brother; burrow; camp; canoe; care; case; caterpillar; chally; chapter; chief; children; claws; close; cloth; clothes; color; coming; continued; country; course; crabs; creature; crowd; cry; cut; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; dense; direction; distance; doctor; doubt; drink; dry; ebony; elephant; etia; evening; excitement; eyes; face; fall; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; female; fetiches; fine; fire; fish; flat; food; foot; forest; fowl; friend; frightened; gambo; game; glad; good; gorilla; great; green; ground; guanionien; gun; guns; hair; half; hands; hard; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hill; history; hold; hollow; home; house; huge; hunting; hut; idol; illustrated; illustration; ilogo; immense; jack; jungle; kendo; kill; kind; king; land; large; leaves; left; legs; leopard; life; like; little; live; long; look; looking; lost; loud; louder; malaouen; man; manga; manner; mbani; mean; meat; men; midst; minsho; moguizi; monkeys; monster; moon; morning; mother; mountains; mouth; mpomo; natives; near; neck; nest; new; nice; night; noise; number; nuts; okandaga; okendjo; old; olenda; open; order; oshengui; ovenga; oyagui; path; people; piece; place; plantain; pointed; poor; powerful; prey; queer; quengueza; querlaouen; rain; reach; ready; red; remandji; return; river; roar; scene; sea; search; set; sharp; short; shouting; silence; silent; size; skin; sleep; small; snake; songs; sound; species; spider; spirit; spot; stick; stories; story; strange; stream; strength; strong; sun; sure; tail; teeth; terrific; thick; thing; thought; thread; thunder; time; tired; trees; tremendous; village; voice; walking; watch; water; way; web; white; wide; wife; wild; wish; wives; women; wonder; wonderful; woods; word; work; year; young
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- 38670
- author: Bindloss, Harold
- title: For Jacinta
- date: None
- words: 102254
- flesch: 83
- summary: and once more it was Austin Jacinta looked at. They were big men, and wore very little to conceal their splendid muscles.
- keywords: advisable; affair; afraid; africa; afternoon; air; american; anchor; answer; anxious; apparent; arm; arms; artistic; astern; astonished; astonishing; astonishment; attention; austin; aware; bags; beach; beat; better; big; bill; black; blast; blood; blue; board; boat; boiler; book; break; breeze; bridge; broken; brown; bull; business; busy; canarios; canary; canoe; captain; cargo; case; castilian; certain; chair; change; chapter; circumstances; clear; climate; close; coal; coast; colour; companion; company; comprehension; comrade; confidence; content; contract; cool; country; course; craft; creek; cumbria; curious; curiously; cut; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deck; deep; devil; different; difficult; dim; dingy; doctor; dollars; donkey; door; doubt; drily; dripping; dusky; easy; effect; effort; engine; engineer; england; english; englishman; erminio; estremedura; evident; eyes; face; fact; fall; fancied; fancy; far; farquhar; fashion; father; favour; feet; felt; fever; figure; fireman; foot; forecastle; forest; forward; friends; funnel; gangway; gascoyne; gaze; gesture; getting; giant; girl; glad; glanced; glasses; going; good; good deal; gravely; great; green; grey; grim; guess; gum; half; hand; handed; harbour; hard; hatch; hatherly; head; headman; heat; heave; help; high; hold; hollow; home; hot; hotel; hour; house; hove; hull; human; inside; iron; island; jacinta; jacket; jefferson; kind; knows; ladder; lady; lamp; las; laugh; launch; lay; leader; left; lib; life; lighted; lights; like; likely; line; lips; little; little smile; locomotive; long; longer; looking; lower; macallister; madeira; mailboat; man; mangroves; mark; matter; mean; men; mind; minutes; miss; mist; mole; moment; money; month; moonlight; morning; morrow; mrs; muriel; murmur; naked; nature; necessary; need; negro; negroes; new; nice; niggers; night; notion; offer; officer; oil; onslow; open; opposite; outside; paddles; paint; palmas; pancho; particular; past; people; perspiration; pictures; piece; pistol; pity; place; plates; pleased; possible; pounds; powder; primitive; probable; pump; puncheon; purpose; quarter; question; quiet; rail; rain; ready; reason; red; relief; respects; rest; result; roar; rolling; room; rope; rotten; round; rule; run; sand; saw; sea; second; sense; sensible; set; settee; seã±ora; shadow; share; ship; shoulder; sick; sign; silence; silent; sir; skin; skipper; slanted; sleep; smile; smoke; sobrecargo; soft; sorry; spain; spaniards; spanish; splash; spray; standing; start; steamer; straight; strain; stream; strength; strip; subject; sufficient; suggestion; sun; sure; surf; surfboat; surgeon; swamps; swing; sympathy; table; talk; task; thick; thing; thought; thrill; thrust; time; toil; tom; tone; tourist; trace; trifle; trouble; turn; twinkle; uniform; unpleasant; usual; value; venture; view; voice; waiting; wall; want; water; way; week; west; western; wet; wheel; whistle; white; willing; winch; wine; wire; woman; wonder; work; world; worn; worth; yellow; young
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- 38870
- author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
- title: West African studies
- date: None
- words: 204544
- flesch: 62
- summary: I do not say the system is unjust or anything like that, mind; I merely say that it does not tend to the production of a series of great men in one family. The two latter have been the chief reason for the Teutonic nations, England and Germany, overrunning the lands of other men.
- keywords: ability; able; account; accra; accused; action; addition; administration; advance; advantages; advice; affairs; aforesaid; afraid; african; african coast; african men; african native; african trade; afternoon; america; ancestors; anchor; ancient; andoni; angola; animal; annual; answer; anxious; apothecary; appearance; appendix; arms; arrival; articles; ashantee; assistance; association; assured; attack; attempt; attention; authorities; authority; available; aware; away; awful; bad; bank; bantu; barbot; bargain; bars; baskets; basons; bay; beach; beads; beautiful; beginning; beings; belief; belt; benefit; benin; best; better; big; bird; bit; bits; black; blame; blood; blue; board; boat; body; bonny; bonny men; book; boys; brandy; brass; breaking; bristol; british; broad; broken; brother; bugles; building; burst; bush; business; calabar; calabar people; calling; calm; cameroon; canary; canoe; capable; cape; capital; captain; care; careful; cargo; carrying; carthaginians; case; 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details; development; die; different; difficult; difficulties; direct; direction; discovery; disease; disgrace; dislike; disposal; disposed; distance; district; divers; doctor; domestic; door; double; doubt; dreadful; dream; drink; drop; dry; dutch; duties; duty; earlier; early; earth; east; easy; eating; educated; education; effect; effort; egbo; eket; element; ellis; empire; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; englishman; enormous; enterprise; environment; equal; equivalent; escape; establishment; european; evening; evidence; evil; ewe; example; excellent; existence; expedition; expenditure; expensive; experience; expert; explanation; exports; extent; eyes; face; fact; factor; factories; failure; fall; family; fancy; far; farm; fate; father; favour; favourite; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; female; fernando; fetish; fetish man; fever; fighting; figures; financial; finding; fine; fire; firm; fiscal; fish; fishes; fishing; fit; fjort; floor; fly; following; food; footnotes; force; foreign; 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killing; kind; kindly; king; king ja; kingdom; kingsley; knives; knowing; knowledge; known; kru; kruboys; kwo; labour; ladies; lady; lagoon; lagos; lake; language; large; late; law; laws; lay; lead; leave; leaving; left; legs; leone; level; liable; lies; life; like; likely; limited; line; little; live; liverpool; living; loanda; loango; local; log; london; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lost; love; lying; macmillan; main; majesty; major; makes; making; man; manchester; mangrove; manilla; manner; manufacturing; marked; markets; mass; material; matter; means; measure; medical; medical man; medicine; meeting; melli; members; men; mention; merchandise; merchants; mere; method; middle; miles; military; mind; miniature; minutes; missionaries; missionary; mist; mixed; modern; mohammedan; moment; money; months; moors; morning; mortality; mostro; mother; mountain; mpongwe; mud; murder; names; nana; narrow; nations; native; natural; nature; navigator; near; necessary; necessity; need; negro; negroes; neighbours; net; new; niger; niger coast; noble; noise; non; noted; notice; number; numerous; nzambi; object; observations; occasion; occur; ocean; office; officers; officials; ogowã; oil; oko; old; old calabar; ones; open; opening; operation; opinion; opobo; ordeal; order; ordinary; original; outside; owner; page; palaver; palm; palmas; paper; paradise; particular; parts; pass; passengers; passing; past; path; patient; pay; peculiar; people; pepper; percentage; perfect; period; person; personal; pewter; piece; place; plant; pleasure; plenty; point; policy; political; politics; poor; populated; population; portion; portugal; portuguese; position; possessions; possible; post; pots; power; powerful; pox; practical; practice; present; pressure; pretty; previous; priests; prince; principal; prior; private; problem; process; produce; products; profit; property; protection; protectorate; public; pure; purpose; quality; quantities; quantity; question; quiet; race; railway; rank; rate; raw; reading; ready; real; reason; reasonable; record; red; regard; region; regular; relations; religion; religious; remains; remark; report; representative; resident; respect; respectable; responsible; result; return; revenue; rich; riches; right; rings; rio; river; rock; roof; room; rough; round; royal; rubber; rule; rum; run; running; sacrifice; sad; safe; said; sailing; salt; san; savage; saying; scattered; school; science; scientific; sea; second; secret; sending; senegal; sense; separate; series; service; set; shadow; ship; shore; shot; showing; sickness; sierra; silent; silk; silver; similar; simple; single; sir; sisa; sitting; size; slave; slavery; sleep; sleeping; small; snake; social; society; soil; song; sons; sort; soudan; soul; south; south africa; south west; southern; space; speaking; species; spirits; spite; spot; stand; standpoint; start; state; statement; station; steamer; stick; stones; strange; strong; student; study; stuff; subject; success; successful; successor; suffering; sufficient; sugar; suitable; sun; superior; supply; support; sure; surf; swamp; system; talk; talking; tawny; tax; taxation; teeth; term; terrible; terrific; territory; thanks; theory; thick; thing; thinking; thirteenth; thought; thousands; tide; till; timber; time; tobacco; tongue; tons; tornado; total; touch; town; trade; traders; trading; treaties; treatment; treaty; trees; tribes; tropical; trouble; true; trust; truth; trying; tshi; turning; unable; unfortunate; unknown; upper; usual; valuable; value; venture; verde; vessel; victim; view; village; visit; voyage; wall; want; war; wars; water; way; ways; wealth; weather; week; weight; west africa; west coast; west indies; western; western africa; wet; white; white man; white people; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; wish; witch; witchcraft; witches; wives; women; wood; words; work; working; world; worry; worship; worst; worth; writers; written; wrong; yams; yards; years; yoruba; young
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- 52444
- author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
- title: Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People
- date: None
- words: 75104
- flesch: 87
- summary: While on the subject of the food of the cannibals, I ought to mention that they do not sell the bodies of their chiefs, kings, or great men; these receive burial, and remain undisturbed. Accordingly he gave me two of his sons to accompany me, and ordered several men to carry my chests, guns, powder, bullets, and shot.
- keywords: able; aboko; afraid; africa; animal; ants; anxious; appearance; approach; armed; arms; attack; axe; bakalai; bango; banks; beast; beautiful; bed; better; big; birds; black; blood; blow; board; bodies; body; bones; boy; branches; brother; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; camp; cannibals; canoe; cape; captain; care; certain; chance; chapter; chase; chief; close; coast; cold; colour; coming; commi; cooked; corpse; country; course; covered; crowd; cry; curious; damagondai; dancing; dark; day; dayoko; days; dead; deal; death; deep; determined; different; dinner; direction; distance; doctor; door; drunk; dry; early; eating; elephant; end; enormous; etia; evening; excitement; eyes; face; fact; fans; far; farther; fast; fear; feet; fellow; female; fernand; fetich; fever; fighting; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flesh; fond; food; foot; forest; friend; gambo; game; gazelle; glad; goat; god; good; gorilla; grand; grass; great; greatest; grey; ground; guns; hair; half; hands; hard; head; heart; heavy; herd; high; hill; hippopotamus; hold; home; horrible; hour; house; huge; human; hunger; hungry; hunters; hunting; hut; idol; illustration; immense; inches; interior; iron; joe; journey; joy; kind; king; lake; land; large; leaves; left; legs; leopard; life; like; little; live; long; longer; looking; lopez; lost; love; lying; male; man; mangrove; manner; matter; mbouvé; mbuiti; mbéné; meat; men; midst; miles; mind; minutes; moment; monkeys; morning; mother; mountains; mouth; mud; natives; near; neck; negroes; nets; new; news; niamkala; night; noise; nshiego; number; numerous; o'clock; obindji; old; open; order; palm; party; people; piece; place; plantain; pleasant; pleased; plenty; point; poor; powerful; prairie; prepared; pretty; prey; quengueza; quiet; rage; ranpano; reach; ready; return; river; royal; running; safe; sand; sangala; savage; saw; scene; seashore; season; set; sharks; sharp; shekiani; shimbouvenegani; shore; shot; shouting; sick; silence; single; singular; size; skin; slaves; sleep; small; snake; spears; spirit; spot; standing; sticks; stories; strange; stream; street; strength; strong; sure; tail; teeth; terrible; thick; things; thought; time; tired; tommy; tornado; town; tracks; trees; tremendous; tribe; trouble; ugly; vast; vaz; village; visit; wait; walking; war; washington; water; way; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; wish; witchcraft; wives; women; wonder; woods; work; world; yards; years; young
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- 5760
- author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
- title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1
- date: None
- words: 59650
- flesch: 67
- summary: Seated in a chair and ready for business, he was surrounded by a crowd of courtiers, who listened attentively to every word, especially when he affected to whisper; and some pretty women collected to peep round the corners at the Utangáni (white man). I come up for white man, you come up for black man.
- keywords: a.m.; account; active; advanced; african; agent; air; alias; american; animals; anthropoid; apes; approach; april; arms; article; ashanti; aspect; assured; attempt; bad; bamboo; banana; bank; barbarous; barbot; battle; bay; beads; bear; bed; beef; beginning; belief; belt; benga; best; better; big; bit; black; blood; blue; board; boat; body; book; bowdich; boy; brain; branch; brass; brazil; breadth; breakfast; breeze; bright; british; broad; broken; brother; brown; bush; bushmen; business; bákele; calabar; camarones; cannibals; cape; captain; case; causes; central; century; certain; chaillu; channel; chap; chapter; charge; charts; chief; children; chimpanzee; civilization; civilized; clay; clear; clearing; climate; close; cloth; clouds; coast; cold; commandant; commerce; common; comptoir; congo; congoese; contrary; contrast; corisco; country; course; craft; creek; crew; cross; cry; crystal; curious; current; custom; cut; damp; dangerous; dark; dash; day; days; dead; death; deep; del; denis; diet; different; direction; distance; distant; dollars; double; dozen; dress; dries; drinking; dry; dwarf; early; east; eastern; eating; effect; end; england; english; equatorial; estuary; european; evening; evil; example; excellent; expedition; experience; eyes; face; fact; factories; factory; factotum; fair; fall; family; far; fashion; fast; father; favourite; fear; features; feet; fernando; fernão; fever; field; fine; fire; fish; flesh; food; foot; forest; fork; form; forteune; fowl; francs; free; french; friends; fruits; future; fán; gaboon; gaboon river; game; general; george; ghats; ghost; glass; god; gold; good; gorilla; great; green; grey; ground; growth; guinea; gum; habit; hair; half; hand; hard; head; heat; heavy; high; higher; highest; hill; hold; home; honour; horns; hotaloya; hours; house; huge; human; hunter; hunting; husband; huts; idea; iii; important; inches; indian; inner; instance; interior; iron; island; ivory; john; jungle; kind; kindly; king; knowledge; known; kru; lake; land; landing; language; large; latitude; leaf; leaves; left; legs; length; lies; lieutenant; life; lightning; like; line; little; live; local; london; long; longer; look; looking; lopez; loud; love; lower; lying; main; majesty; making; male; man; mangrove; map; march; maritime; marriage; mass; material; mats; matter; mbokwe; mbátá; meaning; means; meat; men; mere; messrs; metal; middle; miles; milk; mind; minor; minutes; mission; missionaries; missionary; mixed; modern; money; months; morning; mother; mountains; mpolo; mpongwe; mud; native; natural; nature; naval; nchígo; near; nearer; nearest; neat; necessary; need; negro; negroes; neighbours; nenge; new; niger; night; nimrod; njína; noble; north; northern; number; numerous; object; ogobe; oil; old; open; opposite; order; p.m.; palaver; palm; parts; path; paul; pay; peculiar; people; person; place; plantations; plateau; pleasant; point; poison; poor; portuguese; position; possible; pot; practice; present; pretty; prince; progress; proper; public; pull; pure; question; races; rains; range; rare; reade; red; regions; regular; religion; remains; remarkable; respect; result; return; rev; rich; rings; river; rocks; roi; roof; room; rude; rule; rum; run; runs; sail; sand; savage; scene; sea; season; second; selim; set; settlement; sharp; shekyani; ship; shore; shot; sides; sierra; single; sitting; size; skin; sky; slave; small; society; soft; soil; somal; song; south; southern; specimen; spirits; square; standing; states; station; step; sticks; stone; storm; stranger; stream; street; strength; strong; subject; sugar; sun; sundry; sunset; supplies; supply; surface; sweet; system; table; tall; thick; thin; things; thought; thunder; tide; time; tippet; tobacco; tongues; tornado; tornadoes; total; town; trade; traders; traveller; tree; tribes; trip; troglodytes; tropical; tropics; trouble; true; truth; tánga; unknown; upper; useful; usual; variety; vaz; verandah; village; violent; visit; voice; vol; walker; walking; walls; want; war; water; way; wear; weather; week; west; western; wet; white; white man; wide; wife; wild; wilson; wind; wine; winwood; wives; women; wood; word; work; worse; yards; years; yellow; york; young; zanzibar
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- 5761
- author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
- title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2
- date: None
- words: 78613
- flesch: 70
- summary: When the Lower Congo shall become the emporium of lawful trade, the white face will find a sanatorium in these portals of the Sierra del Crystal,--the vine will flourish, the soil will produce the cereals as well as the fruits and vegetables of Europe, and this region will become one of the Paradises of Africa. Up the Congo to Banza Nokki Chapter X. Notes on the Nzadi or Congo River Chapter XI.
- keywords: 29.10; a.d; a.m.; abbé; admirable; advanced; africa; agents; alive; altitude; ambriz; aneroid; angola; animals; annabom; antonio; appearance; armed; arms; article; aspect; atlantic; attempt; august; author; bamboo; banana; bank; banza; barbarous; barbot; bare; bark; base; basin; battel; bay; beads; bearers; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; belief; benin; bent; best; better; black; blue; bluff; board; boats; body; boma; bombax; bore; bosom; bottle; boulders; bound; boys; branches; brazil; brazilian; breadth; break; breeze; british; broad; broken; brother; brown; bush; business; cabinda; calabar; calabash; calumbo; cane; canoes; cape; capital; captain; captives; carli; case; cataracts; causes; cazembe; central; centuries; century; certain; chaillu; change; channel; chapter; charming; chart; chico; chief; children; chingufu; chisalla; christianity; church; chya; chyá; circle; city; civilized; clad; clay; clear; cliffs; climate; close; cloth; cloudy; coast; cold; coloured; commander; common; complicated; condition; congo; congo expedition; congo river; congoese; continent; contrary; contrast; cool; copper; cor; correct; corrupted; cotton; country; course; cove; creek; crew; crocodile; cross; cuanza; curious; current; custom; cut; dahome; daily; dance; dangerous; dans; dark; dash; dawn; day; days; dead; death; december; declare; deep; delta; dense; details; dew; difference; difficulties; difficulty; direction; discovery; distance; distant; distinct; ditto; dollars; dom; dos; double; doubt; douville; dozen; dress; drink; dry; dull; dutch; dwarf; early; earth; east; eastern; eastward; ecclesiastical; effect; egyptian; eldest; embomma; emigration; end; enemy; england; english; equal; equator; euphorbia; european; evening; evident; evil; excellent; expedition; exploration; explorer; extent; eyes; face; factories; factory; fair; fall; family; fancy; far; fashion; fast; fatal; fate; father; fathoms; favourite; fear; feature; february; feet; fernando; fetish; fever; figures; 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palm; palmyra; parallel; park; parts; passage; past; path; patron; paulo; pay; peculiar; people; peter; piece; pigafetta; pillar; place; plain; plant; plantations; plateau; pleasant; pliny; point; poison; ponta; poor; population; porto; portugal; portuguese; possible; pot; pour; practice; preferred; presence; present; prince; principal; private; produce; professor; projection; proper; prospect; provisions; proyart; pure; quarters; quartz; question; race; rains; rapids; rare; rate; reach; ready; records; red; region; regular; remains; remarkable; remarks; respect; rest; results; return; rich; ridge; right; rise; river; riverine; rock; rolling; room; rounded; route; royal; rude; rule; rum; run; régis; saint; salt; salvador; sandy; satisfied; savage; saying; scattered; sea; season; second; semi; sept; september; sera; settlement; shady; shallow; shape; shark; ship; shore; showing; shows; sides; sierra; sighted; sign; silver; single; sir; size; skin; slave; slavers; sleep; small; smith; smoke; society; soil; song; sonho; sources; south; southern; southwards; speak; specimen; spirits; square; staple; state; station; steps; stones; stony; straight; stranger; stream; strong; style; subject; sun; superior; supplies; supply; surface; swamps; sweet; system; são; tall; tanganyika; teeth; term; theory; thick; thin; things; tide; time; tobacco; tom; tongue; total; touching; town; traces; trade; traders; travail; traveller; tree; tribe; trip; tropical; trouble; trough; true; truth; tuckey; unknown; upper; useful; usual; vain; valley; vegetation; view; village; violent; visible; visit; vivi; vocabulary; vol; volume; von; voyage; walk; walls; want; war; water; waves; way; weather; week; west; western; westward; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; wilder; wind; wine; women; wonder; wood; wooden; words; work; world; writers; xvii; yards; years; yellala; yellow; young; zaire; zambeze; zambi; zanzibar; zunga
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- 58900
- author: Nassau, Robert Hamill
- title: Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
- date: None
- words: 86569
- flesch: 94
- summary: Said Leopard, Ehibo, sit you on the floor, while I eat at the table. Said Leopard, Well! shut your eyes!
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- 5891
- author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
- title: Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
- date: None
- words: 195363
- flesch: 67
- summary: Was I a wife of them Move white man, they inquired--or them other white man? And these Igalwas are great men at canoe work, and can go in a canoe anywhere that any mortal man can go--this to cheer up my Igalwa interpreter--and as for the husband, neither the Royal Geographical Society's list, in their 'Hints to Travellers,' nor
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- 58947
- author: Lofting, Hugh
- title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- date: None
- words: 67206
- flesch: 89
- summary: Now, Doctor Dolittle, while Zuzana was talking over the tea about her letter which she had sent to her cousin--and to which no answer had ever come--suddenly remembered something. That's Doctor Dolittle--and he's drowning.
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- 7937
- author: Bridge, Horatio
- title: Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa
- date: None
- words: 66842
- flesch: 69
- summary: The exigencies of the trade require such men; and any defect, either of capacity or integrity, would soon be brought to light by the onerous duties and responsibilities imposed upon them. For my own part, I have dined at the tables of many colored men in Liberia, have entertained them on shipboard, worshipped with them at church; walked, rode, and associated with them, as equal with equal, if not as friend with friend.
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