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The people were once typical lacustrine folk with huts raised on piles along the shallows of the lake , secure from their enemies . They are short and not warlike , but good swimmers and boatmen . Their legendary foe is the Ankoni ...
The people were once typical lacustrine folk with huts raised on piles along the shallows of the lake , secure from their enemies . They are short and not warlike , but good swimmers and boatmen . Their legendary foe is the Ankoni ...
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He toppled sideways down the bank , rolled clean over once , arms and legs beating the air , and hit deep water with a splash as I was getting on him for a second shot . " Wafwa . He is dead , " they told me confidently .
He toppled sideways down the bank , rolled clean over once , arms and legs beating the air , and hit deep water with a splash as I was getting on him for a second shot . " Wafwa . He is dead , " they told me confidently .
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And Peter , once an A.B. with a brilliant future before him , is now a third - class sanitary man . He fell because he mustered his bag ( as we seamen put it ) when swabbing decks in a trifling jobble , and The Rose lying at her ...
And Peter , once an A.B. with a brilliant future before him , is now a third - class sanitary man . He fell because he mustered his bag ( as we seamen put it ) when swabbing decks in a trifling jobble , and The Rose lying at her ...
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