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Among the eyewitnesses Johnson draws on is the Rev. Samuel Crowther — a Yoruba who rose to become a bishop of the Church, and whose vivid letters describe the country.
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“In a valuable letter by the Rev. S. A. Crowther (afterwards Bishop) to Thomas J. Hutchinson, Esq., Her Britannic Majesty’s consul for the Bight of Biafra and the Island of Fernando Po, published as Appendix A to the book entitled ‘‘ Impressions of Western Africa,”! we find the following graphic description of the country :—”
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