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... forest , a bodiless faun . Every hour he seemed to recede further and further from the thin , nervous pipe sucker with the sunglasses and the dirty sun helmet he had known before , as if that familiar character had been a disguise which ...
... forest , a bodiless faun . Every hour he seemed to recede further and further from the thin , nervous pipe sucker with the sunglasses and the dirty sun helmet he had known before , as if that familiar character had been a disguise which ...
Page 383
... forest would he know for certain that the battle was won . He lit a pipe , and had not even finished it when something stirred in the undergrowth on the fringe of the forest . He did not look up , he went on smoking , pretending to read ...
... forest would he know for certain that the battle was won . He lit a pipe , and had not even finished it when something stirred in the undergrowth on the fringe of the forest . He did not look up , he went on smoking , pretending to read ...
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... forest . The melancholy old man he had treated first , and whose name was Mutiara , spoke a few words of Malay and helped him occasionally as an interpreter . After a few days , it became obvious that the only way to make the Papuan ...
... forest . The melancholy old man he had treated first , and whose name was Mutiara , spoke a few words of Malay and helped him occasionally as an interpreter . After a few days , it became obvious that the only way to make the Papuan ...
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