The negroes of the West Coast of Africa, as I am informed by Dr. Kodjoe Benjamin William Kwatei-kpakpafio, of Accra, take their names from the day of the week on which they are born: Quashi (Kwasi) is Sunday; Kodjoe, Monday; Koffie, Tuesday.—N. M. “Natural History Essays,” by Charles Waterton, edited, with a life of the author, by Norman Moore (Warne and Co.). |
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