Oil Rivers
Americannoun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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In 1882 headmen engage for the Oil Rivers at 1_l._, and 'boys' for 10_s._ to 12_s._
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
They were formerly regarded as within the Oil Rivers district, sometimes spoken of as the Oil Coast.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
Below Yoruba comes a district, the Oil Rivers, where, alas, Ellis did not penetrate, and where no ethnologist, unless you will graciously extend the term to me, has ever cautiously worked.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
I therefore proposed to run south and to revisit my old quarters, 'F.Po' and the Oil Rivers, in the B. and A. s.s.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is a charm I have never met with as indigenous in the South-West or Oil Rivers Fetish, and I think it has a heavier trace of Mohammedan influence in it than the Fangaree charm.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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