Wit and Wisdom from West Africa

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WIT AND WISDOM
PROM
WEST AFEICA.

WIT AND WISDOM
FROM
WEST AFRICA;
OR,
A BOOK OF PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, IDIOMS,
ENIGMAS, AND LACONISMS.
COMPILED LY
RICHARD F.^URTOX,
(Late) H.M.'s Consul for the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Fu,
Aiithor of "A Mission to Dahomey," "A Pilgrima-re to
El Medinah and Meccah," tc.

LONDON :
TINSLET BROTHERS, IS, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1865.
[77Ae BightofTranslation isreserve*!.]
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
TO '
AN OLD AND VALUED FEIEND,
ADMIRAL THE HONOURABLE HENRYANTHONY MURRAY,
(BACHELOR,D4, ALBANY,)
THIS ATTEMPT
TO MAKE THE WEST AFRICAN DESCRIBE HLMSELF,
IS AFFECTIONATELY ADDRESSED,
BY
ONE OF HIS "RECLAIMED."
Efjese nines
WERE WRITTEN TWO YEARS AGO.
I LEAVE THEM A SORROWFUL MEMORIAL
OF THE DAYS THAT HAVE BEEN.