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district being notorious for robbers, we picketed the horses 

 at dark within a quadrangle of fires — not an unnecessary pre- 

 caution ; for in the middle of the night we heard very sus- 

 picious low whistle-calls several times repeated, which gave 



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vigour to the " Alerto I " of our guard. The Timorese are very 

 clever horse-stealers, I understand, and, by abducting them 

 off from the very side of, their owners, the astuter thieves 

 among them have obtained the reputation of being Sivangies, 

 who have the power of making their bodies invisible. 

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