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the prazo Administrator with a request that 

 he would deport them to some land from which 

 they could never return. These man-eaters, it 

 was said, were in the habit of robing themselves 

 in the skins of wild animals, entering huts at night 

 and carrying away and devouring their own kith 

 and kin. I saw a photograph of these pleasing 

 gentry, and their faces were truly those of devils 

 or savage beasts. It is significant that their 

 wives and children refused to depart with them. 



