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are made up by the mixture of races, it is a hotbed of vice. 

 Ibi was an important and one of the most distant posts in 



JUKTJJI OIKLS AT IBI 



the old days of the Niger Company, whose history of 

 dangerous endeavour as pioneers of African enterprise is 

 here told by the graves of many of its servants. 



Before we reached Ibi the idea of operations we had in 

 view was to get across country as quickly as possible, only 



