Crossword-Solution: MOSSI 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

First comes ancient Guinea, then, modern Sierra Leone and Liberia; then follow the various "coasts" of ancient traffic--the grain, ivory, gold, and slave coasts--with the adjoining territories of Ashanti, Dahomey, Lagos, and Benin, and farther back such tribal and territorial names as those of the Mandingoes, Yorubas, the Mossi, Nupe, Borgu, and others.

Behind them came the Mossi from the north, and many other peoples in recent days have filtered through, like the Limba and Temni of Sierra Leone and the Agni-Ashanti, who moved from Borgu some two thousand years ago to the Gold and Ivory coasts.

Mossi's translation I would have prevented, if I had known it, or could have done so; and I trust that I shall yet be in time to stop this new gentleman, of whom I heard yesterday for the first time.

Visiting Stevens' Auction Rooms one day to buy bulbs, I saw a _Cattleya Mossiæ_, in bloom, which had not found a purchaser at the last orchid sale.

Most of the Cattleyas with which the public is familiar--_Mossiæ_, _Trianæ_, _Mendellii_, and so forth--have white varieties; but an example absolutely pure is so uncommon that it fetches a long price.