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Excerpt from Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria; Law and Custom of the Ibo of the Awka Neighbourhood, Vol. 1
Produce - Ou the whole the country cannot be called productive; it is so called white land, especially round Awka, and the yams produced are poor. I found it impossible to Obtain statistics of the kind obtained in the Ede country as to the number Of yams produced per annum; they are not tied up in the same way, and are dug up at different seasons Of the year; estimates were given to me by various men, but they do not seem to me sufficiently reliable to be worth reproducing. One result Of the unproductive character Of the country is that in the rainy season many people are compelled to subsist, at least in parts, upon roots, a diet resulting in some disorder Of the digestive organs which frequently carries Off several hundred people in a town; apart from this the native doctors assured me that the country is healthy, and that, in the parts towards the sea coast, nearly ten times as many people out of health are to be found as in the neighbourhood of Awka I certainly saw exceedingly few sick people.
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Produce - Ou the whole the country cannot be called productive; it is so called white land, especially round Awka, and the yams produced are poor. I found it impossible to Obtain statistics of the kind obtained in the Ede country as to the number Of yams produced per annum; they are not tied up in the same way, and are dug up at different seasons Of the year; estimates were given to me by various men, but they do not seem to me sufficiently reliable to be worth reproducing. One result Of the unproductive character Of the country is that in the rainy season many people are compelled to subsist, at least in parts, upon roots, a diet resulting in some disorder Of the digestive organs which frequently carries Off several hundred people in a town; apart from this the native doctors assured me that the country is healthy, and that, in the parts towards the sea coast, nearly ten times as many people out of health are to be found as in the neighbourhood of Awka I certainly saw exceedingly few sick people.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Northcote W. Thomas
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ISBN - 9780265760321
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 211
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Northcote W. Thomas
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Page Count - 213
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