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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...
...collection contains also a number of pipes of cast bronze, examples of the unusual work of this region; chairs, drums, fighting helmets, bronze collars, spear-head money, "memory sticks", and numerous other articles illustrating the customs of the West African tribes. These objects, which will form a part of the African collection at the Peabody Museum, the third largest collection of its kind in the country, are now being classified in the basement of the Museum and cannot be put on public exhibition for some time to come on account of lack of cases to hold them...
...gamble in futures. The gain in the release from her debt to England is a real and substantial one. With added revenue, France is now in better position to support an army large enough to feel secure, and to proceed, with the work of reconstruction in the devastated region of the north...
...saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that she must have fallen over some cliff and been drowned in one of the fast tidal currents that abound there...
...idea of abduction by a wild, wandering tribe of Eskimos is ridiculous. In the first place those Eskimos now left on the Labrador are as peaceful a race as can well be found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this...