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where, under the shade of splendid baobabs, and amid a 
ereen tracery of palm fronds and creepers, a most imposing 
palaver was going on. A rough circle or amphitheatre of 
human beings was formed, those of the inner ranks seated 
and attentive, and they whom an inferior grade in society 
relegated to a less prominent position standing up, their 
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THE ISLAND OPPOSITE KINSHASHA., 
arms round each others’ waists and necks in the limply 
caressing way so natural to these people. But seated 
opposite to each other in the circle were two important 
eroups which attracted alternately supreme attention. 
All that was chiefest in Black and White was engaged in 
earnest deliberation. On two superb leopards’ skins sat 
the two principal kinglets of the neighbourhood. One, an 
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