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WEST AFRICA.
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out among the petty chiefs. Villages are burnt, fields wasted, captives sold to the

Fig. 88. — Sawpit Bay near Freetown.

Mandingans, the routes get blocked, and the produce of the interior — palm-oil, kola nuts, caoutchouc, ginger — reaches Freetown in very small quantities.