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. Following a years-long price war, it sold its interests in the region to the United African Company in 1884.Geary, Sir William Nevill Montgomerie
''Nigeria under British Rule'', pp. 174 ff
Frank Cass & Co, 1927. Accessed 5 Apr 2014.

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