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low-tide mark. On the top of the cofBn-Ud ate erected tall 

 flags, and the figures of men playing gongs, shooting guns, and 

 gesticulating wildly to frighten away e\^l infinences from the 



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sleeper. Sometimes the platform is erected on the shore ahove 

 high- water mark, and near it is stuck in the ground a tall 

 bamboiJ full of palm- wine ; and suspended over a bamboo rail 



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