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Opening ParagraphThe following short study is not presented with the assumption that it is a complete record and analysis of the omens of the Fanti. It is presented rather with the hope and appeal that some one else who is now living in the Gold Coast Colony will undertake to work out this problem more thoroughly than I have been able to do.
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Opening ParagraphThe following short study is not presented with the assumption that it is a complete record and analysis of the omens of the Fanti.
It is presented rather with the hope and appeal that some one else who is now living in the Gold Coast Colony will undertake to work out this problem more thoroughly than I have been able to do.
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