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Zanzibar Tales

^ by George W. Bateman

"If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will
know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are
gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that are overseers
for native princes, or hares that eat flesh. No, indeed; only the
native-born know of these; and, judging by the immense and
rapid strides civilization is making in those parts, it will not be
long before such wonderful specimens of zoology will be as
extinct as the ichthyosaurus. ... As to the truth of these tales, I
can only say that they were told to me, in Zanzibar, by negroes
whose ancestors told them to them, who had received them
from their ancestors, and so back; so that the praise for their
accuracy, or the blame for their falsity, lies with the first

ancestor WhO Set them going." (summary by the author)

eg Total running time: 2:41 :19

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Cover art by Walter Bobbett, from the book

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