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Almayer's Folly

CHAPTER IX
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She is like a white woman and knows no shame." He paused, deeply shocked.

Lakamba nodded his head.

"Well, and then ?" he asked.
"They called the old woman," went on Babalatchi, "and he told them all--about the brig, and how he tried to kill many men.

He knew the Orang Blanda were very near, although he had said nothing to us about that; he knew his great danger.

He thought he had killed many, but there were only two dead, as I have heard from the men of the sea that came in the warship's boats." "And the other man, he that was found in the river ?" interrupted Lakamba.
"That was one of his boatmen.


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