Mr, H, P. Chainley, tho District Gjmj niissioner of Southern Nigeria, West Africa, who made tho investigations at great personal risk which broke tho power of tho human-sacrifjcing and slavetrading cult of tho "Long ,Tu-Ju" in Arochoku, landed at Plymouth on January 5, and left for liis homo nt Waroop, Westmorland. 110 was recovering from tho attempt to poison him. Mr. Chamley said that ho found _ sixteen human jawbones, relics of sacrifices, when ho ; arrested tho chief Kanu Okuru, but tho chief fraturo of tho cult was slavery. During tho past six years tho chief arnassj «d ,£15,000 atmualliv
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 6
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