British Army officer and ethnographer (1852-1894)

A history of the Gold Coast of West Africa / by A.B. Ellis.

The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, etc : with an appendix containing a comparison of the Tshi, Gã, Ęwe, and Yoruba languages / by A.B. Ellis.

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Alfred Burdon Ellis

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A history of the Gold Coast of West Africa / by A.B. Ellis.

The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, etc : with an appendix containing a comparison of the Tshi, Gã, Ęwe, and Yoruba languages / by A.B. Ellis.