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... W-7arIetfe0. NEw WARLIXE DEFERCE.-Accounts from the Flague, speaking of the threatened war between Holland and Belgium, state The Government is said to have ap. proved of a' plan for inuaoutin7g the country, which might be carried into effect very promptly ...

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... their bodies an ointment should be made in a way which she would show. The female children should be reared and instructed in war ; and male prisoners, before being killed and eaten, should be used for purposes of procreation. Having concluded her harangue ...

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... intercourse with the ?? women of aneighbouringtribe or village is the cause of thi nearly all the palaviers, and wars, and fights, in Africa, fill If a tribe wants to fight, they rake this the cause by di' getting one of their wvomen to intrigue with a ...

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... wvith exciteineut at the summons for the faith, anti meet deitb wvith a contempt the Red Indian could only envy. In the recent war in Upper India, even the , ighilarders ?? as the (iihazces fing themselves on their bayonets; ald the Maplahs have been known ...

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... 'cargo lately areived at New Yornk: no less than twenty blacks who had purchased their freedorim at Demerarn, going back to Africa in the British brig Go- vetnor Teplite,'and put into New Yotk to make pur. chases. The greater part had been 30 years absent ...

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... light-throwing spe~ar of the Amakoea, and are consequently wni in war inure disposed to fight at close quarters than are the Armalcoss. Thu Bushmen masy he called the gipsiec I of Africa. They are generally wanderers, travelling from place to place- according ...

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... naturally look with a degree of delight on every work which bears a reference to that country. Since the commence- ,ent of the war, numerous works on the subject have rapidly made their appearance. It gave an opportunity of publishing ssay books which would ...

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... victims, and yet England declines to engage in war for the sake of putting a stop to these atrocities. All the continental journals agree in the de- daration that we are fast losing our influence in Africa. NATIONAL DEFENSIVE EcoNoMxY.-The taxpayers of ...

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... there were of fairer con- 110 plexion than those of Asia and Africa. Asia signifies be- tween, or in the middle; from the fact that geographers a. placed it between Europe and Africa. Africa means the m. lnd of corn, or ears; it was celebrated for its ...

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... Mairquess of Waterferd Ias prensented to the Dub- iio Zoolegieial Garileis several vatliale auiiials, which his Lordship ?? from Africa and America. Amongst the rest is a gazelle. Theo King of Denmark has abolisiled flogging In his army. The Polish Refugees ...

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... be mistaken for a civilian. He is jaunty in his gait, dashing in manner, and evidently takes delight in the circumstance of war. It must be confessed L his modesty is equal, to his merit-he is not imperious or overbearing, bears great respect for his brother ...