The boys told tales of the mer-people living under the waters of Chad, and the stories of the gigantic fish that they had speared would have driven all our anglers in despair to follow the example of Truth and drown themselves at the bottom of a well. They made the eyes of their less fortunate comrades glisten by their accounts of virgin islands packed with kola-nut, which in the natives’ mind is equivalent to our dreaming of the realms of gold.
Boyd/Niger, 1907
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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