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African Swimming Ferry
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From:
The art of travel: or, Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries
Francis, Sir Galton 1822-1911
London, John Murray, 1855.
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The illustration depicts a mode of transporting people and goods across rapid rivers devised by the Yariba (Yoruba) people.
