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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 2: English-Ibo and Ibo-English DictionaryThe material for this dictionary was collected in 1911, from natives of Awka and Onitsha The words peculiar to each locality are indicated by A and O.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hi...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Edo-Speaking Peoples of NigeriaAt Sabongida, Agbede and Irua the schoolboys supplied the texts and narratives, and to a large extent acted as their own translators. The first four Sobo texts were taken down from the lips of my head boy. The remainder of the texts were obtained from chiefs and others in the various villages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 6: Proverbs, Stories, Tones in IboThe proverbs in this volume were collected in various towns in the Asaba district from natives of the towns. No attempt has been made to systematise the transcription in view of the fact that differences of pronunciation exist between town and town. The stories were with one exception collected from members of my own staff, and th...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone, 1916, Vol. 1Of important ethnographical features the xylophone (kor balanya) is confined to the Kora'nko, the loom (plate I) to Susu, Mendi and Limba with few exceptions, pottery mainly to the Mendi, though this is due principally to the introduction of European pots, mainly of iron.The general form of the house is everywhere the same, save where the rectangular house has penetrated, coming ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 5: Addenda to Ibo-English DictionaryThe present volume contains firstly the Addenda and Corrigenda of the Ibo Dictionary previously published, the proofs of which were read mainly in the colony, so that comparison with the original ms. Was impossible.In the second place it contains re-determinations of tones of certain words in the previous Dictionary, and in the ...

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Excerpt from Crystal Gazing: Its History and Practice With a Discussion of the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying This lady's faculty went no further. In perhaps one case she partially beheld the object on which a friend fixed his mind, in another she saw a curious mystical design that we Shortly afterwards found on the cover of a book, recently published, which had not then reached us, and in a third case, when. About the Publisher Forgotten ...

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Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Peoples of Nigeria, 1914, Vol. 4 One result of this common origin has been that more or less formal treaties of alliance, as it were, exist between these sister towns. If it does not carry them so far as to bring 'an ally into the field in case of war, this is due less to an indis position to help their kinsmen than to the fact that war, at any rate in this part of West Africa, was deemed impossible ...

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Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Vol. 2: English-Ibo and Ibo-English Dictionary The material for this dictionary was collected in 1911, from natives of Awka and Onitsha The words peculiar to each locality are indicated by A and O. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an impo...

Excerpt from Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone, Vol. 3: Timne Grammar and Stories Timne or in actual war. There is said to be a Laudeman tradition that the Timne migrated east under pressure of the Susu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...