 | John Purdy - 1844 - 534 pages
...well-assorted cargo of other goods. The currency of the country is copper rods. Many of the natives here write English ; an art first acquired by some of the traders' sons, who had visited England, which they have had the sagacity to retain; having schoolmasters who instruct in this art the youths... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - 1867 - 738 pages
...of other goods. The currency of the country is copper rods. Many of the natives here write Knglish ; an art first acquired by some of the traders' sons, who had visited England, which they have had the sagacity to retain, having schoolmasters who instruct in this arl the youths... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1883 - 938 pages
...other goods. The currency of the country is copper rods. Many of the natives here write English—an art first acquired by some of the traders' sons, who had visited England, which they have had the sagacity to retain, having schoolmaster- who instruct in this art the youths... | |
 | Percy Amaury Talbot - 1926 - 390 pages
...losing the trade in slaves " (which were exported via Bonny) " owing to exorbitant customs dues. " Many of the natives write English : an art first acquired...art the youths belonging to families of consequence " (John Adams). c. 179o. Effium, called by the English traders Duke Ephraim, probably a descendant... | |
 | Erika Dettmar - 2000 - 504 pages
...write English, an art first acquired by some traders'sons, who had visited England, and which they had had the sagacity to retain up to the present period....the youths belonging to families of consequence." (Adams, zit. nach Dike 1956:1 1 1,1 12) Auch die Stadtstaaten der Yoruba erfuhren durch den Handel... | |
 | Gad J. Heuman, James Walvin - 2003 - 824 pages
...the inhabltants of Old Calahar were reported to be literate in English, and there were local schools "for the purpose of instructing in this art the youths belonging to families of coosequence"; see Adams, Remarks, 144. 71 Walter Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 154S-1800... | |
 | Randy J. Sparks - 2009 - 224 pages
...quotation), 84— 86 (remaining quotations). A nineteenth-century English merchant noted that in Old Calabar "many of the natives write English; an art first acquired...the youths belonging to families of consequence." Captain John Adams, Remarks on the Country Extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo (London, 1823),... | |
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Many of the natives write English; an art first acquired by some of the traders' sons, who had visited England, and which they have had the sagacity to retain up to the present period. They have established schools and schoolmasters, for the purpose of... 