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Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil choose

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[UK] R.F. Burton Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil I 364: A certain Colonel Montenegro, when ‘jawáb’d,’ as the Anglo Indian says, taunted her with preferring to a ‘gentleman of fortune and position,’ a poor ‘man who wrote books’.
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