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WIT AND WISDOM

FROM

WEST AFRICA;

OR,

A BOOK OF PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, IDIOMS, ENIGMAS, AND LACONISMS.

 

COMPILED BY

RICHARD F. BURTON,

(Late) H.M.’s Consul for the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po, Author of ‘‘A Mission to Dahomey,” “A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah,” &c.

 

LONDON:

TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.

1865.

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]