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CONTENTS.
iviii
—A naked Amazon.—Shinto and his Town.—Reception of Dr.
Livingstone.—Manioc Root.—Blood Relationships.—Animal Life.
—Libonta.—Linyanti.—Heavy Ornaments.—Female Beauty.—
The Looking-Glass.—Royal Wives and Widows.—Game.—Dances.
—The Batoka.—Singular Customs.—Other Tribes.—Cazembe. —
Living “according to Nature.”—Estimate of their Character.'—
Marshes.—Tsetse.—Black Soldier Ant.—Bushmen.—Desert of
Kalahari.—The Bakalahari.—Summary.—Civilisation and Com¬
merce.—Geographical View of Central Africa . Page 361

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Africans at home

Description

Being a popular description of Africa and the Africans by R.M. Macbrair

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ABS.1.87.11

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Form / genre:

Written and printed matter > Books

Dates / events:

1861 [Date published]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Africa (continent) [Place in text]

Subject / content:

Descriptions (documents)
Travel
Customs (social concepts)
Social life
Histories (literature genre)

Person / organisation:

Spottiswoode & Co. [Printer]
Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts [Publisher]
Macbrair, R. Maxwell (Robert Maxwell) [Author]

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