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Updated: June 10, 2025
The principal English goods brought to the market of Kano are bleached and unbleached calicoes and cotton prints from Manchester, French silks, and red cloth from Saxony, beads from Venice and Trieste, a coarse kind of silk from Trieste, paper, looking-glasses, needles and small ware from Nuremberg, sword blades from Solingen, razors from Styria.
Like Bance Island, further south, it is the parent of the modern settlement; and so far it has the 'charm of origin. My companion was Captain Philippi, then well known at Lagos: the last time we met was unexpectedly at Solingen.
There was a set of Solingen razors, marked in Arabic with the days of the week; a cloak of blue-and-white-striped cloth, fit for any prince of Bedouins; and an ormolu clock with a gong inside it that would have graced the chimneypiece of a Brooklyn boarding-house.
Thus we observe how it is possible for a pagan myth to become an incident in Christian hagiology. Satan in Rhine Story In the legends of the Rhine the picturesque figure of his Satanic majesty is frequently presented, as in the legends of The Sword-slipper of Solingen, The Architect of Cologne Cathedral, and several other tales.
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