Duala
[doo-ah-lah]
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Duala is the headquarters of the merchants and missionaries.
This is quite a pretty little place (Duala) with some jolly houses, typical German of the Schloss villa type; nice inside and out.
Among the Duala and allied negro peoples of Bantu stock dances of markedly erotic character take place at full moon.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6)Havelock Ellis
Two days after we had stored away the mahogany we anchored off Duala, the capital of the German Cameroons.
The Congo and Coasts of AfricaRichard Harding Davis
About the same time a battalion landing at Bonaberi, across the river from Duala, capitulated after some desultory fighting.
Duala
- plural -la or -las a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Cameroon
- the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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