Word: barua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe. She dips a branch of memory into the pool of the past until it is crystallized with insights, landscapes, literature, and animals that seem as if painted by Henri Rousseau. Who else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became...
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