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Travels and Adventures 



seen. These huts cannot be described as being 

 either round, square, or oval, but are made of sticks 

 plastered with mud and thatched with palm-leaves. 

 A few copper-coloured, naked children, a few dirty, 

 half-naked women, and a score of horrid lean pigs, 



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more resembling hyenas, make up the tout ensemble. 

 One more item which I have overlooked — that is the 

 house in which is sold the spirituous liquor of the 

 country, called anisado. In this house are congre- 

 gated porters, engine-drivers, and passengers, all intent 

 for the moment upon the one object of quenching the 

 terrible thirst caused by a tropical sun striking on the 



