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native village resembling inns, where food and forage are sold, 

 but the whole village is one large hostelry for all the world 



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that passes its door, and every native is the host. I believe 

 that a man could travel from one end of Africa to the 

 other without taking any money or provision whatsoever, 

 and, so long as he went alone and unarmed, would always 

 be fed and helped by the natives. 



With most blacks curiosity amounts to a passion, and 



