Word: palmatate
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...Island Residents. Indigenas who endure the system without protest live peacefully enough. For those who rebel there is the palmatória-a stout, flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...
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