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| 9 | 458 | But we are also an View more quotes about intelligent">intelligent, adaptive people, and are always ready and eager to adopt useful devices, pleasant customs, and such". |
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| 9 | 455 | But what did it bode, or signify, I wondered, that some such men might now be here, in the northern forests, engaged in some project, which appeared to be both mysterious and secret? And I had been debouched on the northern coast, at specific coordinates, supposedly by the order of Priest-Kings, though Kurii, too, obviously, had been apprised of those coordinates. |
| 9 | 456 | What might be, I wondered, the interest of Priest-Kings, or Kurii, in this area, at this time? "We are a formal, traditional people," said Tajima. |
| 9 | 457 | "The old ways are important to us. |
| 9 | 458 | But we are also an intelligent, adaptive people, and are always ready and eager to adopt useful devices, pleasant customs, and such". |
| 9 | 459 | "I understand," I said. |
| 9 | 460 | "Also, of course, it is not unusual for women to come into our keeping as a result of sale, of raiding, of war, and such". |
| 9 | 461 | "Still, I am surprised," I said. |