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Journey into Ashango-land and further penetration into Equatorial Africa, speaks of a certain superstitious reverence for fire and faith in its medical virtues by the inhabitants of the region he traversed. He relates the following beautiful story respecting their astronomical notions:--
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I was not always so solitary in taking my nightly observations, for sometimes one and another of my men or Mayola (the king or chief),
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History of the Anglo-Saxons, says:--
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They had an odd notion that if they addressed that power as a goddess, their wives would be their masters.
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but ordinances of this class seldom produce more than a temporary excitement amongst large masses of the people. I remember, in my youth,
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at the celebration of several
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in Preston and its neighbourhood, sometimes as amateur pyrotechnic artist, when we enjoyed our
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without any reference to Protestant or Catholic proclivities. Few, except the better educated, knew what the
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Gunpowder Plot really meant. Some associated it mainly with our own pyrotechnic efforts and other attendant consumption of the explosive compound, on the then special occasion. I rather fancy the ancient November
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Allhallow fires have in their decadence, merged into the modern
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Gunpowder Plot bonfires; and hence the reason why, in some rural districts, they yet abound, while they are fast disappearing from our more populous towns. I was surprised to find, when riding on an omnibus from Manchester for about five miles on the Bury-road, on the evening of a recent anniversary of this