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George Westbeech
George Westbeech was an English hunter and trader who from the early 1870s traded across the Zambezi from Pandamatenga, in what is now Botswana. Trusted by the Lozi kings Sipopa and Lewanika, he exported ivory in exchange for guns and goods and became an influential figure at the Barotse court, helping European missionaries and travellers to enter the kingdom.
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