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was no common man, to be dosed with 
medicines like a sick woman. “ Cut,” he 
said. 
They cut, and in twenty-four hours Apinoka 
was at his last gasp. Calling his head men and 
his harem around him, he commended his boy 
nephew to their care. “ Let him be king in 
my place,” he said, and then, not deigning to 
say farewell to his numerous wives, who wept 
around him, he took a draw at his pipe, and 
went to join the other monarchs in the spirit 
world. 
