The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-25

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Some Old Portsmouth Profiles, and Per-
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My Dark Companions and Their
Strange Stories. By Henry M. Stanley,
d. G. L., etc., author of In Darkest
Africa, etc with numerous illustrations.
The author says the nightly custom of
gathering around the camp fire and en-
pertaining one another with stories, be-
gan in 1875, and the following legends,
| nineteen in all, are the choicest and
most curiousssrelated to him in seventeen
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published in any. ssof hissbooks of travel. :"
The first legend of the Creation of Man,
was told by Matageza, native of the
Basoko. These tales and legends have
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in almost every tale here is moral.
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