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This electronic edition of Edith A. How's People of Africa wasproduced by John Walker in January 2003. It follows the 1921 edition(the only one of which I am aware) published in London by the Societyfor Promoting Christian Knowledge and in New York by the MacmillanCompany. I have corrected two typographical errors in the originaltext: "sandstorm" was misspelled as "standstorm" on page 21 (section 1of chapter III), and "bought" appeared where "brought" was intended onpage 33 (paragraph 3 of section 2 of chapter IV).
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PEOPLE OF AFRICA
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