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Sultan Njoya, king of the Harmed Cameroon, as<br />
over r10 years. was d man of genius At the and<br />
of :he mmeteen. century. he caromed an indepen-<br />
dent system of minting Ice he own language as<br />
well as a sacral Moon Mnguage He was<br />
.nepied by a dream, which he was told to<br />
dims a man, hand on a board and Men to wash<br />
off his drawn°, and drink the water He Men<br />
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to name them. Armed well dor mauls, ha esp.,<br />
°melted until he had Created Ms first system of<br />
writing. containing Min pelographic and Mee<br />
strophe symbols.<br />
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Altar Ma perfection ol Ike [ASH:Hrs. ', ova set up<br />
a semen of schools ...book houses' throughout<br />
Ns kingdom al which ivrelreds of hi sub,la<br />
leamod to read end write An important end<br />
vaned collection of Her waa rumpled, only<br />
some of which hes been preitemod. Among<br />
other works, lump iernpled vo Nma on No<br />
history and customs at his kingdom, a hook of<br />
rules and for conduct at ha court ants a ogled<br />
tme of maps of es domains. Ho created a *rap<br />
arid ethnographic collect. at Pa palace. and<br />
encouraged Me development of IradiSdial weaving<br />
and dyeing.