typo or eggcorn?

[sagehen]

from Barry:
>11 July 1872, Boston <i>Daily Globe</i>, pg. 6:

>" It was bold to presume anything of  the kind, bit it was bolder far to
>venture to >accost an Englishman, even in the  wiles of Africa, without an
>introduction."
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Oh, those wiles!
AM

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