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Bade

or Bedde, a people inhabiting the area around the city of Nafada on the middle course of the Gongola River in Nigeria. The Bade and related tribes—the Bolewa (formerly Boslawaand Anpika), Karekare, Ngizim, and Tangale—have a population of about 500,000 (1967 estimate). The Bade language belongs to the Hausa group. The religion is Islam. The Bade are undergoing a process of assimilation with the Hausa, to whom they are very close in culture and religion. Their chief occupations are agriculture and cattle raising.

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Her mother did not believe her in the least, but bade her rise and consider it an idle dream.

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Loudly he knocked at the door, and in a loud voice shouted for them to let him in, but the door was of massive oak, strongly barred, and studded with spikes, so they felt safe, and bade Little John begone.

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Friday would fain have had me take one of their canoes, and pursue them; and indeed I was very anxious about their escape, lest, carrying the news home to their people, they should come back perhaps with two or three hundred of the canoes and devour us by mere multitude; so I consented to pursue them by sea, and running to one of their canoes, I jumped in and bade Friday follow me: but when I was in the canoe I was surprised to find another poor creature lie there, bound hand and foot, as the Spaniard was, for the slaughter, and almost dead with fear, not knowing what was the matter; for he had not been able to look up over the side of the boat, he was tied so hard neck and heels, and had been tied so long that he had really but little life in him.

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