"There also remain, as in the Baulchi highlands from which Nigerian tin comes, aboriginal negroes with cannibal tastes."
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Hamilton Fyfe, "British Empire in Africa II: A Survey of its Lands & Peoples", in J. A. Hammerton (ed.), Peoples of All Nations, vol. 1 (1922), p. 614
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