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| 23 | 18 | We had View more quotes about known">known this, for the message of the drums, coming from the east, had preceded her. |
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| 23 | 15 | "That is true," I said. |
| 23 | 16 | On the cushions, reclining, on one elbow, in yellow robes, embroidered with gold, in many necklaces and jewels, lay a lovely, imperious-seeming girl. |
| 23 | 17 | "It is Tende," whispered one of the men, "the daughter of Aibu, high chief of the Ukungu district". |
| 23 | 18 | We had known this, for the message of the drums, coming from the east, had preceded her. |
| 23 | 19 | On either side of Tende knelt a lovely white slave girl, strings of white shells about her throat and left ankle, a brief, tucked, wrap-around skirt of red-and-black-printed rep-cloth, her only garment, low on her belly, high and tight on her thighs. |
| 23 | 20 | Both slaves were sweetly bodied. |
| 23 | 21 | Each had marvelously flared hips. |