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spear and watch the herds partake of nourishment. 
They are the standing army. 
We followed the man with the spear to a little 
village hard by. The village, like all the numerous 
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other ones that we came to in the next few days, 
was inclosed in a zareba, or wall of tangled thorn 
branches that encircled the village. Within the wall 
were a number of low houses, six feet high, built of 
mud and wattle; and within the houses, spilling 
