Publication: Histories of Samory and Babatu, and [other raiders] written in Hausa by Hallam Abu

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Reference
- GB 102 PP MS 59/08
Former Reference
- GB 102 MS 98017
Dates of Creation
- c. 1914
Language of Material
- Hausa

Scope and Content

Histories of Samory and Babatu, and [other raiders] written in Hausa by Hallam Abu, c. 1914, who said he was with them, for Dr. J.F. Corson in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. Hausa text in Arabic script with notes by F.W. Migeod in English and transliterated Hausa [Given by Dr. Corson to F.W. Migeod in January 1926].

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Papers of Frederick William MigeodPP MS 59

Notebook containing manuscript copies of correspondence, vocabularies and miscellaneous notes on the Niger, etc.PP MS 59/01

Notebooks containing manuscript Hausa texts, of a miscellaneous character, transcribed in Arabic script, transliterated and in some cases translated into English.PP MS 59/02

Account book: Manuscript notes on the service numbers, height and other records and identification markes of a number of Mendes.PP MS 59/03

Notebook: Manuscript and cyclostyled notes on the Mende and other peoples of West Africa.PP MS 59/04

Account book: Manuscript transcripts of passages from the New Testament in Mende, with an interlinear English translation.PP MS 59/05

Notebook: Index to African books. Manuscript bibliographical notes on West Africa.PP MS 59/06

Notebook: Manuscript notes on the distribution of a number of Sudanic languages.PP MS 59/07

Publication: Histories of Samory and Babatu, and [other raiders] written in Hausa by Hallam AbuPP MS 59/08

Account book: Manuscript notes of the names, height and head measurements of a number of Africans of the Gold Coast and Congo, followed by a few notes on rainfall.PP MS 59/09

Two notebooks containing manuscript notes on Ejura natural history in diary form.PP MS 59/10

Two notebooks containing descriptive notes of West African flora, arranged under native names in chronological order of finding.PP MS 59/11

Notebook containing detailed descriptive notes concerning Mende flora, arranged under Mende names in alphabetical order.PP MS 59/12

Notebook containing a manuscript English-Fanti vocabulary of words and phrases.PP MS 59/13

Envelope containing manuscript and typescript bibliographical notes on Liberia.PP MS 59/14