Author: Constance Smedley
Illustrator: Maxwell Armfield
Year: 1923
Location: personal library
Despite the reference to Mali's Timbuktu in the title, only a few of the stories are African:
The Bird Who Gave Milk (Kaffir)
Where There's a Wit, There's a Way (Congo)
The King's Drum (Calabar)
The Faithful Friends (Korea)
The Foolish Young Emperor (Manchuria)
The Stone Lion (Tibet)
Why the Fish Laughed (Kashmir)
The Eloquent Peasant (Egypt)
The Gifted Lad (China)
Jewels, Silver, Pearls, and Gold (Chile)
The Man who South Wealth from God (Malgascay)
The Feasts of Shiraz (Persia)
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