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...that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water borne in skins by his slaves...
...week (see p. 27) speeded the translation and reporting of wall signs in Pompeii, which diggers are still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...
SOULOUQUE MANDI-MANSA...
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