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Soon after coming to anchor on the 15th December, we went up the river in our skiff, carrying with us certain basons, _manels_, &c. for sale.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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We took the name from them, and hence came the name of the Grain Coast -- Astl.I. 152, a.] [Footnote 233: Margarits may possibly have been mock pearl beads; the manels or manellios were bracelets of some kind.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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