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Page 12
Namanama became rocky; no other country in the whole Reserve is so stony and
hilly. Wawa wanted to make it into a better place, not for him but for us. He
brought out a crowd of whites with machines — a whole flock of rattling beasts —
and ...
Namanama became rocky; no other country in the whole Reserve is so stony and
hilly. Wawa wanted to make it into a better place, not for him but for us. He
brought out a crowd of whites with machines — a whole flock of rattling beasts —
and ...
Page 42
On a day like this you could not hold out for long; Duwei did hold out for a finger-
count of days however, but he did not have the whole of his body in the sun. The
stockmen chained him to a large boulder, there beyond the Homestead, and ...
On a day like this you could not hold out for long; Duwei did hold out for a finger-
count of days however, but he did not have the whole of his body in the sun. The
stockmen chained him to a large boulder, there beyond the Homestead, and ...
Page 52
If you were a man it would take you a whole lifetime to make your way back. I
should have pleaded with the whites to take me from the surveyors' camp to the
bush again with some food for the children, but no one had time for that —
everyone ...
If you were a man it would take you a whole lifetime to make your way back. I
should have pleaded with the whites to take me from the surveyors' camp to the
bush again with some food for the children, but no one had time for that —
everyone ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Babaru: Stories Illinois short fiction |
| Author | B. Wongar |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252009959, 9780252009952 |
| Length | 102 pages |
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