Word: cameroons
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...German colonies were distributed in 1919 as follows: German East Africa (Britain); German South West Africa (Britain); Cameroon (Britain and France); Togoland (Britain and France); German New Guinea? comprising Kaiser Wilhelm's land, Bismarck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands, Nauru ?(Britain); Marianne Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Island, Pelew Island (Japan). All these colonies are mandated by the League of Nations...
...Ratified treaties with France and Belgium regarding the rights of Americans in the former German colonies of East Africa, Cameroon and Togoland, now under mandate. ¶ Discussed and rediscussed the oil scandal...
While this collection is not the largest of its kind in the country, it is nevertheless one of the most completely representative. It includes numerous garments, utensils, weapons, and relics of different kinds from all parts of the African continent. The Cameroon and the Egyptian Sudan collections are especially full...
Several shipments of material illustrating the daily life of the primitive tribes of the southern, Cameroon region in West Africa, and constituting a collection believed to be without parallel in this country, have been received from West Africa by the Peabody Museum...
Among the objects of interest in the collection assembled by him are several valuable prehistoric stone axes and other implements from southern Cameroon, such as are handed down from generation to generation in the native families to give good luck and to keep the dead from tormenting them. One of these stones is put into the water in which each newly-born child is bathed, to bring it luck...