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Title: Round the black man's garden
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colvile, Zélie Isabelle Richaud de Préville, lady
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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the owners of the carved wooden stoolsof the country. Having bought one of these—I sup-pose at an exorbitant figure—we were pestered allthe w^ay back by would-be vendors of these articles,the word having apparently been passed down thestreet that we w^ere willing to relieve all families oftheir superfluous furniture. It was the hottest partof the day, and in spite of a nice breeze we werebeginning to feel that lunch, and a nap in a deck-chair afterwards, would not be amiss, so we refusedmost of the numerous offers to step inside; but inresponse to one man, whose mysterious manner ledus to believe that he had something particularlytempting, we followed him up a narrow passage,through a dark court into a low stuffy room, froma corner of wdiich he produced an ordinary greenparrot. But as I had been told that I should prob-ably return home in a ship full of them, I declinedhis offer. On returning to the ship we found the sea had risena good deal; and as the surf-boat could not be kept
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M West African Wares. 1. Loofas. 2. Kru boys tooth-brush. 3. Accra fan. 4. Earthenware musical jar. 5. Wooden pillow. 6. Kru boyspiano. 7. Girdle of cowrie shells. 8. Manilla coins. 9. Needle-case. 10. Girdle of cowrie shells.16. Broom. (I. Carved gourd. 12. Model of canoe. 13. Grass haversack. 14. Round basket. 15. Accra comb. princes island. 295 alongside the companion-steps without fear of break-ing them, I had to climb up a rope-ladder. Our ship ought to have gone round the Bight ofBenin to Old Calabar, and then southward; but asthe Captain thought it desirable to land the Frenchsailors as soon as possible, he made straight fromAccra to the mouth of the Gaboon. On Friday afternoon we had another tornado,which seemed as if it was going to blow us out ofthe water while it lasted, but it left the air deli-ciously cool, and was succeeded by the most lovelyphosphorescence I have ever seen, the wake of theship being a positive blaze of light. We passed close to Princes Island the nextev

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