“Now I am Tipo Tipo,'that is,'the gatherer together of wealth.”

—  Tippu Tip

Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 168, 169 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up Last Journals, page 188

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