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...completely irrelevant when the Dayaks, following their traditional custom, began eating the body parts of their victims to gain spiritual strength. More than 500 Madurese were butchered; 30,000 more were shipped from Borneo to Java by military and civilian boats; 15,000 more, like Syamsudin, are waiting in Sampit, desperate...
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...Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman's poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw, the Pee Dee, the Black, the Sampit, the Santee, the Cooper, the Ashley, the Edisto, the Ashepoo, the Combahee, the Savannah. Near the mouths of these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations...