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Incidentally we had to keep the eastern highway free of mines and transportable submarines, prevent the passage of spies between Arabia and Egypt, and fetch and carry as the shore-folk required. Taking it all round, it was not an easy job, but I think the blockade presented the most complex features.
Surprised, he glanced quickly through the open door, and saw that all the shore-folk had stopped their work to gaze at a longship flying swiftly onward; a stranger, evidently, for a man was on the mast watching out for hidden rocks and pointing out the channel to the steersman.
Ample details concerning this industry are given by the old writers. There are, indeed, few things which have travelled so far and have lasted so long as cowries they have been found even amongst "Anglo-Saxon" remains. The modern Muxi-Loandas hold aloof from the shore-folk, who return the compliment in kind.
On the following morning, two large canoes twenty paddles in each came in from somewhere about Milne Bay. They remained for some time near the shore, getting all the news they could about us from the shore-folk; then the leader amongst them stood up and caught his nose, and pointed to his stomach we doing the same. The large canoes went ashore, and the chief came off to us in a small one.
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