human
brought from the opposite Bahia (de Todos os Santos), though much coarser than the small Indian, and not better than the large blue Zanzibar. M. Du Chaillu (
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Second Expedition, chap, iv.) owns to having been puzzled whence to derive the four sacred cowries:
human
They are unknown on the Fernand Vaz, and I believe them to have come across the continent from eastern Africa. There are, indeed, few things which have travelled so far and have lasted so long as cowries--they have been found even amongst
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Anglo-Saxon