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72 THINKING BLACK turns somersault, for here is an African winter as hot as an Indian summer sweeping over the country like a fire: a conundrum in human speech, *^a fiery freezing winter." Watch now the same negro produce a pair of ancient boots, and carefully as fastidiously lace them up with bark rope—surely this time he is going to be normal at last. Not he, for quite solemnly he produces an old pair of socks and wears them outside his boots. The same man again sports a starched shirt once white, but now unredeemedly vile, a vision of smudges. Down dips the sun and out come the stars, but the tale of topsy-turvyism is not yet finished. There is your old Northern friend the " Great Bear " on the horizon, but this time he is upside down. Sprawling on his back in a manner most undignified for a respectable constellation, he is one more instance of the somersault ways of this queer land. {Later,) But stay. These upside-down doings are not yet complete. The scene again changes, but not the subject. Enters a young slip of a girl who has been beaten for no fault of hers, yet never a tear does she shed : no tears mark you, and no crime did she commit. On plying them with ques- tions, I find that far from her innocence being conjectural they blandly admit she did nothing worthy of stripes. Yet she got them all, forty plus more, and the curiously candid confession is that because she was innocent there- fore was she beaten with many stripes. It now comes
"BORING IN" FARTHER 73 out that the African can wriggle out of even this injustice, the explanation being that the girl is a twin, and as her sister did the deed they must be beaten in pairs ; not either nor neither, but both or none. Twins they were born and twins they live and die. So mad are the Africans on this twin subject that even when Miss First gets married, the bridegroom is forced to marry her twin-sister Miss Second on the same day. (Although these sisters are slim little things, yet literally their names are Miss Elephant and Miss Hippo, all twins being forced to take these two traditional titles. ) There was a case here where twin-brothers were forced to marry the same lady, so in- exorably operates this dogging law. Right up from birth each has ever haunted the other, their food being scrupu- lously divided into two, the twin bairns with twin portions. In proffering them a gift you must sternly make it a two- handed one, simultaneously holding out both arms to both recipients. When a twin sickens mortally no doctor may be called nor any medicine administered, all mourning being deprecated. God, they say, did this deed of creating *' terrible twins," and God must kill or cure them. The only way to wish them well is by cursing them, and these cursings the complacent twins receive as choice compli- ments. The hapless father and mother likewise get all the town abuse, each vituperation being a sort of upside- down blessing. Yet these are the very folks who would throw the old anti-Paul taunt at us about turning the world upside-down. Dare to suggest to them this, and Mr. African at once engages in a very unfavourable
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THINKING D.CRAWFORD.ER.G.S.
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THE LOOK-OUT HUT On the Cliff overh
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Copyright by Morgan &* Scott Ld.y I
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TO the first lady who ever penetrat
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I. First Fears Justified II. First
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS THE LOOK
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THEN THEN and NOW " Wanting is—wh
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THEN AND NOW xv the blue Atlantic
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BOOK I CHAPTER I First Fears Justif
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LET CHAPTER I First Fears Justified
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FIRST FEARS JUSTIFIED 5 Portuguese
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FIRST FEARS JUSTIFIED 7 the breezy
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FIRST FEARS JUSTIFIED 9 pestle, and
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FIRST FEARS JUSTIFIED 11 that is to
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FIRST FEARS JUSTIFIED 13 with buoya
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CHAPTER II First Things First
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CHAPTER II First Things First TT7'H
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A TYPICAL DEW-DRIER.
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20 THINKING BLACK pick us up, we ca
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22 THINKING BLACK Often only a much
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"OWN UP AND PAY UP*' 117 To judge f
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"OWN UP AND PAY UP" 119 tribute wra
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A PRECOCIOUS PRINCELING
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122 THINKING BLACK cross one Coilan
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124 THINKING BLACK souls. Very wear
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126 THINKING BLACK final argument o
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CHAPTER VIII Dark Doings in Luvalel
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CHAPTER VIII Dark Doings in Luvalel
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DARK DOINGS IN LUVALELAND 133 "No c
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DARK DOINGS IN LUVALELAND 135 list
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DARK DOINGS IN LUVALELAND 137 up wh
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DARK DOINGS TN LUVALELAND 139 Catho
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DARK DOINGS IN LUVALELAND 141 is Ch
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DARK DOINGS IN LUVALELAND 143 why a
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"God hath His deserts broad and bro
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150 THINKING BLACK Commandant heart
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152 THINKING BLACK benefits of mutu
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154 THINKING BLACK bare. But the fi
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156 THINKING BLACK and like ships a
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158 THINKING BLACK But, as the nati
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160 THINKING BLACK excellent exampl
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162 THINKING BLACK he was still che
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164 THINKING BLACK wings onward. Th
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BOOK II CHAPTER X Farthest, but Shu
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YOU CHAPTER X Farthest, but Shut, I
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FARTHEST, BUT SHUT, IN 169 there ar
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FARTHEST, BUT SHUT, IN 171 even den
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FARTHEST, BUT SHUT, IN 173 fact tha
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A Typical "Wipe out.
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176 THINKING BLACK for mere hours !
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178 THINKING BLACK taboo. As, there
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180 THINKING BLACK off—back she c
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182 THINKING BLACK amount of wisdom
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184 THINKING BLACK de Loanda, reque
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186 THINKING BLACK ape European way
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"With joyful enthusiasm they [the B
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190 THINKING BLACK At our end of th
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192 THINKING BLACK by the aspirant
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194 THINKING BLACK then surprises h
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196 THINKING BLACK on the exchange
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198 THINKING BLACK baked hard in th
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200 THINKING BLACK the identical id
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202 THINKING BLACK —crime, the us
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204 THINKING BLACK West, our neares
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CHAPTER XII Shut In, but Almost Out
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HERE CHAPTER XII Shut in, but Almos
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 211 Shunted
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 213 Eemembe
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 215 " drama
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 217 have dr
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 219 how to
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 221 Surely
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 223 round i
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SHUT IN, BUT ALMOST OUT 225 *^ Redu
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"Shrine of the Mighty! can it be Th
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230 THINKING BLACK demanded by his
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232 THINKING BLACK town from the pl
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 233 skin lier so
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 235 function is
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 237 spurned like
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 239 aperture the
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 241 age God repr
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244 THINKING BLACK neighbouring kin
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 245 drawing near
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 247 brought upon
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 249 (l5^ Decembe
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 251 sense of qui
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BLACK SUFFRAGETTES 253 the cause. W
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"When they were but few men in numb
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258 THINKING BLACK and Stanley are
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260 THINKING BLACK {Later.) I thoug
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262 THINKING BLACK ceased mother is
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264 THINKING BLACK winds of Africa
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266 THINKING BLACK let the welkin r
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268 THINKING BLACK {3rd Decemher.)
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270 THINKING BLACK they one by one
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272 THINKING BLACK us not rend it,
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^ 2?4 THINKING BLACK (what should h
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276 THINKING BLACK can juggle with
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278 THINKING BLACK Some more eye-op
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280 THINKING BLACK and the late Cle
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CHAPTER XV Red Sunsets
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ONE He for Mushidi ! CHAPTER XV Red
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A LUBAN LADY,
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288 THINKING BLACK Chona. As Lord P
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290 THINKING BLACK the huge pit the
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292 THINKING BLACK which they all d
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294 THINKING BLACK Just one gleam o
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296 THINKING BLACK then, with no da
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'* Though the mills of God grind sl
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300 THINKING BLACK revealed the Kat
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302 THINKING BLACK Anglo-Mushidi en
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304 THINKING BLACK hastened his unt
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306 THINKING BLACK cloud of dust—
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308 THINKING BLACK were so maddened
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310 THINKING BLACK sends its roots
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312 THINKING BLACK mention of which
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"NEMESIS, DAUGHTER OF NIGHT" 313 me
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"NEMESIS, DAUGHTER OF NIGHT" 315 th
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CHAPTER XVII Our Eastern Exodus
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THE CHAPTER XVII Our Eastern Exodus
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^yyy */M/i ?iii«.v .*j. On the Lua
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 321 when a voice
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 323 scenery, but
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 325 own private
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 327 the same tim
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 329 his valedict
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 331 The same gro
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 333 their title,
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 335 alive. An ee
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 337 as brave in
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 339 along the ro
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 341 cannibals ta
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OUR EASTERN EXODUS 343 sufferings a
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CHAPTER XVIII Boring out East
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CHAPTER XVIII Boring out East TJyT
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BORING OUT EAST 349 lightning and s
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BORING OUT EAST 351 we are at last
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BORING OUT EAST 353 three-feet-high
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356 THINKING BLACK her soul. The ni
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358 THINKING BLACK case being not b
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360 THINKING BLACK minutes represen
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362 THINKING BLACK way of testing t
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364 THINKING BLACK who in many thin
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366 THINKING BLACK we rest. This be
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368 THINKING BLACK too sudden for i
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370 THINKING BLACK scene a young fe
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372 THINKING BLACK shallows ; has i
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"There's a legion that never was li
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376 THINKING BLACK save the boot, f
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378 THINKING BLACK have the honest
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880 THINKING BLACK great things and
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382 THINKING BLACK perfect a pneuma
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384 THINKING BLACK amongst animals,
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386 THINKING BLACK like a stinging
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388 THINKING BLACK the minaret-shap
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390 THINKING BLACK Divine Omniscien
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•'Where the sand has drunk hot te
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394 THINKING BLACK We broke another
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396 THINKING BLACK Lake "—Mary fo
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398 THINKING BLACK of these solemn-
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400 THINKING BLACK the papyrus. One
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402 THINKING BLACK Tripoli into the
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404 THINKING BLACK amount of peace
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406 THINKING BLACK few days after I
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408 THINKING BLACK sums up a hundre
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*' Father Nile presents his complim
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412 THINKING BLACK Will my good-nat
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 413 of my appeal.
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 415 Work, wait, a
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 417 whole African
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 419 any coal, onl
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 421 have our grea
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 423 idea, remembe
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 425 comes the Mis
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 427 been known to
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A PAGE OF HISTORY 429 vowels. But t
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" The thing that hath been, it is t
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434 THINKING BLACK reptiles quite c
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436 THINKING BLACK giant has nearly
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438 THINKING BLACK younger brethren
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440 THINKING BLACK their dirty fist
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442 THINKING BLACK traveller must,
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444 THINKING BLACK all the matchwoo
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446 THINKING BLACK things have come
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 447 heath
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 449 negro
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 451 that
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 453 of th
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 455 world
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 457 for t
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 453 and,
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 461 descr
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 463 not f
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BLACK MAN = BLACK MANNERS 465 Farth
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[Fro}n Stereograph, U7iderwocd &•
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468 THINKING BLACK came " (this is
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470 THINKING BLACK hear at the hipp
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CHAPTER XXIII "The Year of Love": a
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474 THINKING BLACK with our Gospel
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476 THINKING BLACK of anguish, why
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478 THINKING BLACK not spend his li
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480 THINKING BLACK off the terrible
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482 THINKING BLACK negro spies it ?
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484 THINKING BLACK heavy artillery,
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Abbreviated names, 428, 429. Abstra
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BiEDS continued. Flamingo, 399. Fow
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Crawford, Mrs., 99, 415, 416, 456,
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Friendship, 181. Frogs, 485. Fronta
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Kapara's, A lion at, 366. Kapwasa,
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Mweru, Elephants at, 436. women eva
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Rivers, African, 247. Bailombo, The
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Swimming the Lufukwe, 394. the Luko
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