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Towards the end of the 15th century, a love, first, was bornbetween the inhabitants of the west African coast and Europe.

Rumors of gold whichwas to collect pebbles as had decided to first Portuguese, then naturally theDutch, English, French, Belgian and German to establish the counters wheremagic exchanged during these four centuries loves small glass beads that are.

From Venice, theNetherlands, Bohemia, they instructed millions of pearls.

In exchange, theywere ivory, palm oil, timber and precious especially gold.

But what happened tothese wonders?

Why does it take thisyear to collectors, through the villages of Africa to meet a single row of\"Mille Fiori\" pearl identical?

Richard Burton, theexplorer, responded to it after discovering the sources of the Nile: \"Itis possible that increased demand on the part of the inhabitants of regionsthat their situation deprived of any direct relationship with the coast, hascaused the dispersion of these pearls across the vast terra incognita Basin inCentral Africa \"

While in his book\"How I Found Livingstone, the interpreter explained Henry Morton Stanley,while they were on the upper river RUGUFU, about a ceaseless rolling thunder thatdo not storm: \"There is a great mountain, on the other side of Tanganyika,full of deep holes where the water rushes and when there is wind, it makes anoise like thunder. Many boats were lost there, and is customary for both Arabsfor indigenous launch white pearls to appease the gods of the lake.

What Lois Sherr Dubinconfirms in his book \"History of pearls\"

\"The bottom oflakes, rivers, streams and coastal streams may well be based where some ofthese tons of pearls lost. Fortunately, the rainy season brings each year,thousands of pearls of all ages on the banks and beaches of the continent.