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Word: bukoba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote, while custodian of enemy property, he had found a pile of packing cases in a German warehouse in the East African lake town of Bukoba. One "was slightly packed with sawdust and had a smaller case inside. This also was very well made and strongly fastened. When I opened this the contents proved to be a native's skull. Whether this was the skull of Mkwawa I cannot say, but very great care had been taken in packing it." He concluded that he did not know what became of the skull, because he left it where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treaty Skull | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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