Word: african
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keel schooner yacht Gitana, Mr. William F. Weld, Jr., owner, sailed on her Mediterranean and African coast cruise, yesterday. Mr. Weld will be accompanied by three friends, among them Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through...
...members of the Malagassy embassy have visited Paris; London and Washington to prevent the perpetration of wrongs upon an innocent people, and to secure such advantages of treaties or trade as might be secured from any civilized government willing to enter upon a venture in the greatest of the African islands. It would be idle to think that this embassy will give new life or new directions to American commerce. On the other hand, the Malagassy gentlemen about to visit Boston are not merely barbarians stranded on a foreign shore, but men of rank, one of whom is likely...
...artist is given a choice even of races. There is the Caucasian in multitudinous variety, the African at his chosen post-slavic occupation, and, in smaller numbers, the Mongolian, and besides many of the intermediate hybrid types...