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Page 97
... Desa Langit comes down to harvest some of this saliva . It is their hereditary right , and everyone in the group helps . The men build long rickety ladders of bamboo and twine and send their sons up to scrape the nests off the limestone ...
... Desa Langit comes down to harvest some of this saliva . It is their hereditary right , and everyone in the group helps . The men build long rickety ladders of bamboo and twine and send their sons up to scrape the nests off the limestone ...
Page 181
... Desa Langit and for food to be prepared for the funeral feast , the burial is normally delayed until the evening of the second day . We had to wait even longer than that to bury Pak Sila . Nobody afterwards could remember exactly what ...
... Desa Langit and for food to be prepared for the funeral feast , the burial is normally delayed until the evening of the second day . We had to wait even longer than that to bury Pak Sila . Nobody afterwards could remember exactly what ...
Page 228
... Desa Langit to watch the dancers in rehearsal and found Pak Moudhi putting them through their paces . Ibu Suri belonged to the butterfly clan and should have been down in Kota Rendah sewing costumes , but she had no patience with such ...
... Desa Langit to watch the dancers in rehearsal and found Pak Moudhi putting them through their paces . Ibu Suri belonged to the butterfly clan and should have been down in Kota Rendah sewing costumes , but she had no patience with such ...
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