IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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tlie common law of the town, have the pre- 
eminence. We shall give a separate chapter on 
the doings of the Purrow-bush society. 
From the above the reader may infer the form 
of government that exists. It is not a monarchy, 
but an approximation to that form of government. 
Not unfrequently is the country given up to an- 
archy and confusion, and is kept in that condition, 
much of the time, by those pretended rulers whose 
only aim is to get possession of the earnings of 
the people, and waste them upon their own lusts. 
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