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DemocraticNationalTicket
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
OF NEBRASKA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN W. KERN
OF INDIANA
. STATE TICKET
Governor. A. C, Shallonberger
Lieutenant-Governor. .... E. O. Garrett
Secretary of State. ....... John Mattes, Jr.
Auditor .. Edwin II, Luikart
Treasurer. ........ ... .Clarence Mackey
Superintendent of Public Instruction
., ..N. C. Abbott
Attorney-General......... II. B. Fleharty
Commissioner Public Lands and
Building... W, B, Eastbam
Hallway Commissioner... Wni. II. Cowgill
Congressman Sixth District. , .....
. W. H, Westover
State' Senator, Fourteenth District..
... ...i ....... . ,, .George M, Adams
Representative, 53d District........ ".
.,...,..,..., lred W. Jonansen
COUNTY TICKET
fFor County Attorney, Eugene Burton
? For Commissioner, Second Dist.,
' J, P. Jensen
ANNOUNCEMEHS.
Far County Ctpmlssiwer, Secern! District.
I desire to nnnounco to the people of
Box Butte county that I am the regu
lar nomine of the second district for
commissioner on the Democratic-Independent
ticket and will appreciate sin
cerely any support the voters see fit to
give me at the polls. J. P. Jensun.
For County Attorney.
I hereby anncsre myself as a can
didate for the oltice of county attorney
' of Box Bntte county, Nebraska, on the
democratic-indepnndeut ticket, and
solicit the suppott of the voters of Box
Butte county. Eugene Hukton.
T
Beginning Tuesday morning of this
-week Mr, Bryan made a three days' tour
of eastern Nebraska. The trip was made
-on a special train and Mr. Bryan spoke an
average of twenty-five times a day.
liverywhere he was greeted, by large and
enthusiastic audiences.
The republicans of the west have build
ed great hopes on the western tour of
Governor Hughes. While they profess to
believe that the tour has strengthened
their cause, they really know that because
ot his evasions and his false witness Gov
ernor Hughes has weakened rather than
streoghcued them. He avoided any ref
erence to the bank guaranty and refused
to refer to his veto of the two-cent fare
law after using several hundred thousand
dollars contributed by railroad managers
to his campaign fund. Everywhere he
was asked to explain it But he ignored
all questioners. He .made a specious at
tack upon the trust plank of the democra
tic platform and declared that the 50 per
cent clause would ruin the man who tried
10 manufacture under a patent. He evi
dently thought that westerners are so
ignorant that they do not know that pat
ents are a constitutional right, and paraded
the fact that he does not know the differ
ence between an incentive to individual
genius and an Incentive to corporate
greed.
By this time probably every newspaper
reader in the country is wise to the Omaha
Bee joke. The Omaha Bee is edited by
Viator Rosewater, a Nebraska member of
the republican national committee, mem
ber of the executive committee of that
organiftlion and chairman of the bureau
of publicity. Recently Mr. Bryan quoted
from the republican tariff planks, but in
the printed report of his speech the quota
tion marks were left ofl. Reading the
following the Bee editor took it for granted
that it was what Mr Bryan said.'
"In all tariff legislation the true princi
ple of protection is best maintained by the
imposition of such duties as will equal the
difference between the cost of production
at home and abroal, together with a
reasonable profit to American industries"
Then the edito? ot the Dee proceeded to
denounce that principle as "sheer dema
gogy" and declared that an attempt to put
it into practice would result in endless
strife between employer and employe'
precipitate panic and .do untold injury.
The Bee realty had hard work expressing
its hatred for such a "demagogic utter
erance." Now that its editor, republican
national committeeman from Nebraska,
has learned that he was denouncing a re
publican platform plank, the silence that
reigns in the Bee office could be cut with a
knife
The Portland Oregonlao, another rci
publican organ, made the same fool mis
take. So did the Boston Transcript. And
.Mr. Bryan says he no longer reads books
of humor when he want to laugh. He
just reads a republican platform.
Mr-Bryan spent several days in Itn
coin last week Catching up With his cor
respondents -and receiving reports about
the progress of the campaign. Just be
fore starting back to Chicago to resume
his tour Mr. Bryan spoke at ilavelock,
a suburb oi Lincoln, and the site of the
big Burlington shops. A few days before
Mr. Taft spoke at Havelock; and the shops
were shut down thirty minutes in order
that the shopmen might here the republi
can candidate. Later the shopmen were
notified to either make up the tost time or
be docked the thirty minutes.
The Lincoln newspapers and the press
associations heralded it forth that Mr,
Taft was introduced to the Havelock
crowd by ''the president of I fie local boll
ermakers union." and this1 gave the repub
lican organs another excuse to say that
Taft is not being opposed by organized
labor. This is a sample of the deceit
practiced by their republican committee,
Mr. Taft was introduced to the Havelock
audience by a man named Holmes, who is
a gang foreman ia the Havelock shops.
Holmes is not a member of any union, and
never was.
Every effort was put forth to get a big
crowd for Taft at Ilavelock. The morn
ing was ideal Snd the meeting had been
advertised far and wide. Vet Taft talked
to less than 500 people, and not half the
shopmen turned out to hear him. Monday
night of last week Mr. Bryan spoke at
Havelock. It rained all day, and rained
at night. The city park, where he spoke,
was a sea of mud. The streets were al
most impassable. Yet Mr. Bryan spoke
to upwards of 3,00a people, and the en
thusiasm was intense. A big delegation
of union shopmen occupied the speaker's
stand, and Mr. Bryan's analysis of the
labor planks in the two platforms was
greeted with wild enthusiasm,
Judge Westover's Position
Believing that the voters of the Sixth
Corgressional District have a right to know
where their candidate stands on the issues
involved in this election, and believing
that candidates before election should state
publicly and unequivocally what they nre
in fnvor of, and what they will undertake
to do if elected, I hereby pledge myself as
follows:
1.' I will support anv and all measures
which will bring about the election of
United States senators by direct vote of
the people.
2. I will support a law making it com
pulsory upon all political parties to publish
,1 complete statement of campaign contri
butions before election.
3. I will favor a law providing that in
all cases of indirect contempt of court, the
party so accused shall be tried by a jury,
the same us any other person accused of
crime
4. I will tavor a reduction ot the pres
ent tariff to an extent that foreign compe
tition will compel American manufactur
ers to sell their products to American con
sumers as cheaply as they sell them to
consumers in any foreign country; and tlmt
all agricultural machinery, fencing, build
ing material, and all household utensils be
placed on the free list.
5. I will favor an amendment of the
so called Railroad Rate Bill, now in force,
which will provide that pending an appeal
to the federal'courts, the order of the inter
state commerce commission, whether
making a new rate, or which is made for
the purpose of preventing an existing dis
crimination, shall be and remain in force'
pending the appeal in the federal courts.
G. I shall favor an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for an in
heritance and income tax.
7. I shall favor an amendment to the
present homestead law now in force and
applicable to this district, which will give
the homesteader the same rights of com
mutation, and making final proof, as are
enjoyed in other localities by homesteaders
under the general homestead law ot the
rnnntrv.
8. I shall favor a, law under which de- j
poiuts in au national banks will be guaran
teed, as proposed in the Denver platform
9. I shall devote all of my,time, energy
and what ability I possess, to attending to
the business of the people of this district,
ond-to guarding- their rights individually
and collectively.
jo. I shall favor an amendment of the
rules, oi the house of representatives, which
will deprive Speaker Cannon, or any other
speaker of the house, of the power to
throttle legislature which is demanded by
the people.
If the above and foregoing propositions
meet with your approval. I respectfully
and earnestly solicit your support at the
coming general election.
W. H. WESTOVER. '
AN OPEN LETTER
TO M. P. KINKAID
BY CAPTAIN AKERS.
The writer, W. R, Akers, is a prominent republican and has served the
party in public office He serv.ed in the state senate and was the author of the
present irigation law; he was elected thti first secretary of the state board of
irrigation and held thnt position until he was appointed receiver of the U. S.
laud office at Alliance by President McKinley, in which place he served for
eight years. He is still a republican but refuses to support Moses forever:
Hon. Moses P. Kinkaid.
O'Neill, Nebraska.
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from James H. Hewitt ot Alliance in
which he informs me that you have made the assertion on the train between
here and Alliance that I was going around the country electioneering against
you Now this is absolutely untrue. The fact ia that I have not been' able
the past year to go around the country to aay considerable extent. I have
been as far from here as Mitchell, Morrill and Gering. And I believe I have
stated in each of these to.wns that I was not going to vote for you. Is that
electioneering? If so, then I am guilty. Mr. Hewitt also informs me that
you stated that both Wilcox and I were opposed to him for reappointment. .
Now, if you said that, you knew at the time it was false, because I have talked
to you by the hour in bis interest as clerk and as successor to myself. The
general land office records will show (hat I always supported him for clerk,
and Senator Burkett will tell you that I made a trip to Lincoln to urge his ap
pointment as receiver to succeed me.
I did not intend to do or say anything in a public way against your nomi
nation, but intended to be satisfied in saying that I did not intend to vote for
your nomination. But since you have rushed in the open and set your tongue
wagging, allow me in this very unsatisfactory way to make some statements as
to why I will not support you.
In the first place, I believe your whole life has been a bundle of deceit. I
do not believe you ever made an honest statement in your whole life, or ever
fulfilled a promise unless you saw some gain for yourself. You deny any
responsibility for every failure on the part of securing any other benefit in
Washington .
You claim all the credit for every favor which anyone receives in Wash
ington. You claim credit for every pension or increase of pension of every
old soldier in the country, notwithstanding they had their attorneys and you
knew nothing of the case until it had been allowed; then you rush in and noti
fy the soldier that you secured it. I wonder how many old soldiers you think
you have hoodwiuked iu this manner'
You state in your announcement that "sjveral years after his legislative
experience Mr. Kinkaid became district judge." Now, Judge, why did you
make that statement' Did you want to deceive someone? Is it not a fact
that you as senator introduced and passed the bill which formed and estab
lished the 15th judicial district in the state of Nebraska' What was the dis
trict doing all these several years without a judge? Why did you say "several
years after," if not to convey the idea that you had not always been in public
office since you came into manhood' Now, Judge, if I am mistaken in this
matter, I am ready to acknowledge the corn when the proof is forthcoming.
And again, I ask if you have not been in public office ever since, except at the
most four years? And were you not a candidate at every election after that
until you were finally elected? if not, I stand corrected when the proof is
shown.
I may be mistaken as to the year 1896, But 1 believe you thought you
would make an excellent supreme judge, and of course you could not be a can
didate for supreme judge and congress at the same time, While you were
judge you rendered your decisions as a grand stand play to the litigant and
bystanders, and you had the faculty of making the fellow upon whom you sat
down think you had rendered him a great favor. You have the faculty of
deceiving the unsophisticated and making them believe that you remember
and hold them in high esteem, when in fact you do not know them at all or rer
member their names. How man'y'hundred times have you approached men,
whom you did not know, aud point out some fellow on the other side of the
street and ask, "Who is that fellow?" and, as soon as informed, make rush
with extended hand and exclaim, "Hello, Hank," or hello Jim, or Charley, or
whatever his name might be. What did you do that for, Judge, if not to de
ceive someone? You never deceived anyone in this way but the unsophisti
cated. I understand, or at least am informed, that when you finally went off the
district bench you left cases which you had under consideration and advise
meut you were afraid to decide for fear of making enemies in politics, and
which had to be retried enough to cost the litigants several thousand dollars
to retry. Do you think that a record to be proud of?
Why, then, wheu you were making up your record, did you not tell us
that you left a number of cases undecided because they smacked of politics, and
would have iujured your chances?
Why did you write this record as if the editor wrote it? Did you think
that the dear people never saw but one paper, or did you think we were so
thick-headed that we would not notice that the language was the same in each
paper? How does this sound for an article written by the candidate himself
"The .congressman's greatest legislative achievement is his one-section home;
stead act, generally known as the Kinkaid act." That sounds much like some,
thing which happened a long time since in this country. Christopher Columbus
discovered America, so acknowledged by historians, but Amcricus Vespuccius
stole the name. Hon, Wm, Neville, democratic congressman, conceived the
idea of the enlargement of the homestead bill, introduced it into congress; but
because he was ofl color with congress, politically, he was not able to pass it
When you came into his shoes you inherited the bill, and I have been inform
ed that you and Judge Norris took this matter up and prepared this bill to
gether, and it was to be introduced jointly by you, and it would then be known
as the Kinkaid-Norris bill, or Norris-Kinkaid bill. How is this, Judge, have I
been misinformed' I await to be shown.
While you actually got the credit for the passage of this bill, it would
seem better if it should have received the name of "Neville Bill," because Bill
Neville wrote the bill and tried to pass it, and would have done so only for the
jeason that a democrat must not be allowed to get any credit. Why give
Roosevelt any credit? Did not you, judge and congressman Kinkaid, pass the
bill yourself Did uone of the other congressmen from Nebraska have any
thing to do with its passage' Did you get over into the senate and pass it
there alone? Oh, come now, judge, just be fair and say that you and Norris
dug up Hill Neville's bill out of the files and remodelled it, and then you took
advantage of Norris and passed it without his assistance and got the name,
want ou to say it this true, and, if not, don't say so, but bay that it is not true.
I have a few questions which I disire to ask you, and I want you to an
swer them through some newspaper in this district
Did you not lead Henry Reynolds to believe that vou intended to support
him for the position of receiver of the United States land office at Alliance on
my retirement? Did you not say to Henry Reynolds in Washington, when he
and Charles Cornell, of Valentine, were sent down there by the Western Ne
braska Cattle Association to assist you (and at your request) in passing a lease
bill, that "now you are here, we will have that land office matter fixed up."
And did you not pretend to him that you were alone for him and that you
might have difficulty to get the senators to agree with you? Did not Henry
Reynolds come back to you the same duy and tell you that both senators had
informed him that they had agreed that you should settle the matter alone?
And did you not say, "Oh, they are lying to you"? Aud did you not, before
he left you in washiugton, admit to him that the senators had agreed that you
should make the appointment, but you state that you must give it to Ellis? Is
this true or not? I believe the story. If I am wrongly infoimed, I am from
Missouri show me.
Now, you told Hewitt that you could not control that appointment, Did
you not make it alone, without the intervention of any man on earth, and
with the consent of both senators? If not, show the proof. You presume to
tell Hewitt why I oppose )ou. without anyone in Mitchell telling you. Do you
remember a long talk I had with you at your owu desk, in which I told you of
the trouble with the register of the office about the appointment of one
Roderic Williams as clerk in the land office' And do you remember that I
told you that I believe that the object in getting him into the land oflice was to
edncate him to take the place of Jim Hewitt And do you remember that you
voluntarily said that you did not think Hewitt should be interfered with? Dfd
you not ltnow that Wilcox and I had disagreed about the appointment of
Williams' And did you not know that Williams could not be appointed over
my protest without congressional interference' And did you not s congress
man from the bixth district, in obedience to the command of a democratic boss,
your democratic boss, go up to the general land office and interfere aud secure
the appointment of the said Roderic Williams? Answer this.
I see. Judge, that this letter is already much longer than 1 intended, and
yet I am uot near done telling you the reason why I do not support you this
nomination. I do know why you should take umbrage I always supposed I
had a right to choose between candidates who were asking the suffrage of my
party.
1 was fool enough over at Crawford to turn down Judge Grimes whom I
now consider a much better man than you and voted something like a hun
dred times for you, for which I have been trying for the last four years to hire
some cheap guy to kick ray pants. W. R. Akers,
ROOSEVELTJJYNASTY,
Son-in-law Longworth's Startling
Proposition.
WHY THE CAMPAIGN DRAGS
Republican Party Seems to Depend
More on Personalities Than Advocacy
of Principles to Elect Its Candidate.
How the Election of a Democratic
House Would Affect Bureaucracy at
Washington.
By WILLIS J. ABDOT.
As Me pppronch the end of tills presi
dential campaign, with only a few
weeks yet of polltKnl agitation to be
conducted, I tun Inclined to wonder
whether the campaign was made after
or before the conventions of the two
grent parties. Except In .a gcnernl
way I cannot claim any special knowl
edge of what has been done at the
Republican national headquarters. But
friends there, for of course you under
stand thnt active political opponents
may be luthnnte personal friends, tell
me that with the cxccp'.!'i of circu
lating literature there lu- been little
work of a distinctly po.'Ucal nature
done. As I write this the Information
comes that th m-triTcr' of the Chi
cago headquarters of the Republican
national committee are laying off clerks
nnd reducing their force and expenses
In every possible way.
The Democratic natloual headquar
ters have been busy, but for not more
than three or four weeks. Nor at the
present moment does there appear to
be nnytblug like the activity or the
earnestness that was shown in 100O or
even In ln4.
Now. u .i.tt Is the reason of this situa
tion Iu both of the national commit
tees? All 1 can suggest is n personal
opinion. The two men who are candi
dates for the presidency are them
selves so well known, have themselves
so well pressed Iu the past their claims
upon the American people, that there
Is little left for a political committee
to do except to plead with stnte leaders
to get out the votes. This Is the first
campaign that I can recall In which
not a single campaign biography was
on sale. It is the first campaign that
I remember in which it was not nec
essary to be continually expfalnlug
who the candidates were and what
they stood for. I am writing a Demo
cratic letter, but I wish to be fair. It
there Is anybody In the United Stntes
who does uot know who Judge Taft
is and for what he stands it must be
a voter to whom It would be useless
to send a campaign biography or a
text book. And in the same way on
the Democratic side Mr. Bryan Is his
own platform nnd is known to and of
all men. Campaign headquarters might
be closed without materially affecting
the outcome. It might be worth while
to adopt Mr. Carnegie's plan of a Uni
versal disarmament and leave the can
didates to fight out their own battles
without the aid of battleships, thirteen
Inch guns, press bureaus or speaker?
bureaus.
Personalities Rather Than Principles.
It nppears to be the fixed policy ot
the Republican party to press to the
front during the fow weeks left of
this campaign attacks upon persons
rather than cither defense or advocacy
of fixed principles. There Is more said
nbout Haskell thftn there Is about
tariff, moro bitter nttneks upon Bryan
the individual than there is upon Bry
an who stands for certain fixed ideas.
How far this system of tactics may
prevail cannot be told as yet. It is
true that Governor Haskell has with
out one scintilla of proof against him
been driven out of the campaign. But
so, too, hnve. on the other hand. Por
aker. Du Pont and Nagel. all men of
high standing In the Republican or
ganization. But Into n great organiza
tion, whether Democratic or Repub
lican, there will occasionally come men
whose entire lives have not been or
dered according to the highest ethical
principles
Macaulay once said that ho knew of
no spectacle so ridiculous as the Brit
ish public In one of Its occasional
spasms of morality. I know nothing
so absurd ns the violent outbreaks of
the partlsun press iu the United States
about election time when ttouw one on
the other side is accused of conduct
which could not be. even if proved,
put iu complete accord with the Golden
Rule. Great editors like Mr. Hearst
discover no moral obliquity in buying
stolen letters and using them to ex
pose some one whom they accuse of
being either n thief or a briber. Great
statestneu like Mr. Roosevelt find no
reason why they should not Implore
the "practical" Mr. Ilarrlmnn to col
lect $200,000 from trusts aud monop
olies for political purposes olid there
after denounce the collector as an un
desirable cltlzeu while denying on the
evo of a campaign that the collection
was ever ninde. In my Judgment, un
til Mr. Roosevelt hus had the manli
ness and the courteousness to admit
he was wrong when he denounced
Judge Parker as a willful nnd mall
clous falsifier when the Judge exposed
Ills trade with the plutocracy he has
110 right to continue his pose asn mor
al upllfter and an ethical teacher.
A Continuing Dynasty.
Mr. Nicholas Longworth. the son-lu-Iaw
of the president, has contributed
materially to the Interest of this cam
paign and .somewhat to the gayety of
the president's opponents by his speech
In which he declared that President
Ifoosevclt would be a candidate lu
1010. Mark how this figures out! Tho
pre.sluym muvcctlo.l President McKin
ley In V.1 lu served out that term,
was elect M ngul-i in 1001. Iu 1003 he
Aierrs--tt is. it ttii American people
fll pcrmjr it his successor. That suc
cessor s,urtcs ttv terms. Thereupon
Mr. Tuffs sponsor In politics returns
cheerfully to take up the politician's
burden and to become ouce more tho
president. This cheerful proposition
for a self continuing dynasty must ap
peal strongly to the American people.
There is uo reason why It should stop
with the return of Roosevelt to otllce.
Even If he were willing to retire at tho
end of one term bis son-ln-lnw long
worth would be able to take up the
heavy task of governing the American
people, aud by tho end of his term
Quentln or Kermlt or some other
Rooseveltlnn youth would be of age
to accept the scepter handed down to
him.
But, seriously, It Is a matter for the
American people to give careful thought
to when the proposition is made that
a political combination which has had
twelve years of uninterrupted power
should be given twelve or sixteen years
more. The management of affairs at
Washington Is not so wholly beyond
nnd above suspicion that an ccasionul?
change In those who have eo Urol of It
would uot be a good thing. A sld rom
any change In the economic policy of
the government, I believe that every
right thinking citizen will hold It welt
to have un occasional housoclcanlng.
Tou who rend this may not. believe In
the ImmeaMnte reduction or the tariff.
You may not believe lu the guaranty
of bank deposits. But If y"Mi knew
your Washiugton ns 1 do you would
believe In a clearing out of the cob
webbed offices In which clerics who
have outlived their usefulness are
housed and. even more important, the
trim and gorgeous offices In which de
partment heads who draw salaries ot
2.500 a year and spend three times
thnt much are luxuriating.
What Might Be Done.
The election of a Democratic presi
dent who would install a new set of
department heads would accomplish
this reform nnd. besides saving mil
lions of the people's money, would
make for greater efficiency In all ex
ecutive departments. But my old
frlei-d Cha'-ij) " r': pointed out to me
the other 1". i th-t even though we
bhnuld le . t ' presidency which nei
ther ho nor 1 believe we will the elec
tion cf a I cmocratlc house of repre
sentatives would contribute to the
same result. Mr. Clark pointed out
thnt a Democratic house would elect a
Democratic speaker f course fee
would be that speaker and that the
Democratic speaker could appoint sev
en committees made up of the proper
kind of men, each one of whom would
undertake the investigation of one of
the executive departments. No Re
publican speaker would do this, or If
he did he would appoint whitewashing
committees in every instance, but u
Democratic speaker who, like Clark or
like Ralney of Illinois or like Lloyd of
Missouri, would be untnlnted by any
sort of traffic with the Republican
side could make such trouble in the
powerful burenucracy of Washington
that the Republican party would be
put out of power for ns long n time as
it now has been In power.
Concerning the Bureaucracy.
And, speaking of this same bureau
cracy. It ha? been built up and gained
its present powerful position through
the abandonment by President Roose
velt of tho principles upon which he
founded his original fortunes In poli
tics. Today we learn that all federal
officeholders who "resigned" In order
to take up political work have been or
dered to report at their posts If they
expect to be reinstated. Now, do you
know what the significance of that
phrase is? Men from the postoflico de
partment, the treasury or the Interior
department were permitted to resign
to Join in the joyous task of nominat
ing and electing Taft. Ordinarily when
a man resigns from a job that ends It
But they have an arraugement nt
Washington and, for thnt" matter, in
other federal offices by which the man
can resign nnd after having completed
the work he goes out to do be rein
stated. It Is perfectly obvious that the
purpose of this arrangement Is to cir
cumvent the civil service reform law
which prohibits federal officeholders
from taking au active part in politics.
The Republican national committee
is ordinarily pretty prosperous. 1 think
It Is this -year. If it can becure the
services of a number of practical poli
ticians like, for example?, Frank II.
nitchcock, who, It Is said, has "re
signed" it can well nfford to pay them
salaries equivalent to those they were
receiving from the government. And
then If after five months of political ac
tivity on the part of these retired offi
cials the president of the United States.
the old time civil service reformer,
Theodore Roosevelt, sends word just
before the election thnt they must all
hurry home or fall of reinstatement,
how fine the moral effect upon the
country Is!
Can you Imagine a better bit of po
litical bunko than this? If federal
officeholders must not take part In poll
tics, let their resignations be flnnl when
handed In. But to say that tho first
assistant postmaster general emi step
out of office long enough to manage a
campaign In which all bis subordinates
nre Interested and at Its completion re
luru again to his old place Is to give
the He to every protestation of civil
ervce reform that Theodore Rpose
relt hlmseif ever made.
Chicago.
Algoa and Detagoa.
The names Algoa bay uml Dolagoa
bay are derived from the outward and
homeward voyages of the old East
ludlameu who on their voyage? to
Goa. In India, were wout fo ca!J at
Port nilznbeth on the outward voy
age nnd at Lourenco Marques on the
homeward voyage: hence the names
Mgoa (to Goat and Delngoa (from
Una).
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