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Also assigned to teaching duty with this Unit is Lieutenant Commander Maurice B. Hinman, USN (Ret.) who had served in the same capacity prior to his transfer to the Naval Academy last October...
...Bartimeus' he is the author, etc - )." In the preface to Steady as You Go by "Bartimeus" I note that his correct name is given as Capatin L. da Costa Ricci, C.V.O., R.N. Who is right? - TIME, or the writer of the preface-William McFee. Engineer-Lieutenant, R.N.R., ret...
Last month the passing of Ret Fafiti (rets, like Christian Scientists, do not die) brought the stately Shilluk peers into conclave. The peers elected the 30th in a long line of rets: middleaged, blue-black Anei Kur, prepared to install him at Fashoda...
...through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...
Three days later Anei Kur came forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, invested with the spirit of Nyakang, and rejoicing as a strong man to run his course. Henceforth his people know him as Kuna Jo-Uk-God's last-born, the immortal ret of the Shilluks...