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Africk
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Proper noun
en Africa.
en 1621 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
1781 He Is Concerned in a Dangerous Adventure with a Certain Gardener;Sublimes His Ideas, Commences Gallant, and Becomes Acquainted with Miss Emily Gauntlet. 49 2 And let not the incredulous reader pretend to doubt the truth of this phenomenon, until he ſhall have firſt peruſed the ingenious Peter Kolben’s Natural Hiſtory of the Cape of Good Hope, where the inhabitants commonly uſe to ſtrike fire with the ſhin-bones of lions which have been killed in that part of Africk.