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spear and watch the herds partake of nourishment. 

 They are the standing army. 



We followed the man with the spear to a little 

 village hard by. The village, like all the numerous 



The Standing Army Sat Around All Day 



other ones that we came to in the next few days, 

 was inclosed in a zareba, or wall of tangled thorn 

 branches that encircled the village. Within the wall 

 were a number of low houses, six feet high, built of 

 mud and wattle; and within the houses, spilling 



