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Updated: July 7, 2025
"We had been tuburing one afternoon, and put back with our baskets filled to a spit of the shore where we had left an old islander, Kotali by name, alone and tending a fire for our meal. Coming near we saw him stretched on the sand by his cooking-pots, and shouted to wake him, for his fire was low. Kotali did not stir. I was one of the first to jump ashore and run to him.
He may have mistrusted me; but more likely he forbade it out of care for me and the music I played; for the prahus regularly came back with three or four of their number missing either capsized on the voyage or blown away towards Tawi-Tawi, where the pirates accounted for them. "Though I might not sail abroad he allowed me to join the tuburing parties off the shore.
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