Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
on
TUESDAY,
the 14th June, 1904, nt 11 AM«
at their.
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, (Corner of lee House Street),
SUNDRY
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising:-
MARBLE-TOP SIDE-BOARD with BE. VELLED GLASS, WASHSTANDS, TEAK.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1904.
Intimations.
THE INDO.CHINA STEAM NAVIGA
TION COMPANY, LIMITED.CO
APPLICATION has been made to the GENERAL of, this Company to issue to the RUSSO-CHINESE BANK of Hongkong duplicate certificates for Two Hundred Shares in the above Company of other certificates is lieu thereof upon the State. ment that the original certificates, vit :-- Scrip No. 69 Nos. 17,826/17,850-25 shares in
the name of George
Hutton Potts.
Scrip No. 79 Nos. 36.189/36,429-50 shares in
the name of Catchick Paul Chater
the name of Catchick
Paul Chater,
KIPLING'S WITTICISMS.
A BOOM IN DEAD PIGS
WOOD OVERMANTELS with REVELLED Scrip No. 550 Nos. 44.759/44.283-25 shares in could not come away again-flaughter and
GLASS, MOROCCO-COVERED DINING ROOM SUITE, WRITING TABLES,
the name of George Hutton Polts.
VIENNACHAIRS, TAPESTRY-COVERED Scrip No. 873 (Nos. 5.151/5.475)
SOFA and CHAIRS, COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS, CROCKERY and GLASS- WARE, BRONZE BUSTS, &c., &c. ;
ALSO
1. New SINGER'S SEWING THREADLE MACHINE, IRON SAFES, and New JAPANESE RICKSHA
TERMS: As usual.
3.326/3,340-50 shares in
❘
There are also "death duties," of which the Emir gets a share, and a few other taxes.
SLAVERY, -
As re-
Entimations.
DONE BY TRYING. Nobody can tell what he can do till he tries. When a thing ought to be done the modern spirit moves us to
keep working away at it until it is done. In the face of this idea the "impossible vanishes. Where there's a will, there's a way. "If we could but rob cod liver oil of its sickening taste and smell and then combine it with two or three other ingredients we should possess the best remedy in the world for certain diseases that are"now practically incurable" So said"a"famous"English physi--
"But it will never cian twenty-five years ago be done," he added. "You can'no more turn cod liver oil into a pleasant palatable medicine, than you can turn the Codfish itself into a Bird
of Paradise." Yet he lived to admit that in
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION.
Before the arrival of the white man many of At the second annual dinner of the Autons the towns paid their taxes`annually in slaves, obile Club of South Africa, held recently in which, in fact, were a kind of currency. A man the Mount Nelson Hotel. Cape Town, Mr. making a long journey, for instance, would take Rudyard Kipling replied to the toast of "The with him some slaves, whom he would sell on the road, one by one, to pay his expenses, Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ire-Zaria itself was the most renowned of the land" He said he could not express ad-slave-dealing centres · The people practically equately his sorraw and amazement and indig- did nothing but deal in slaves. Caravans com- `nation at hearing certain remarks which had ing down from Kano would be paid for their fallen from those members of the Cape Minis merchandise in slaves; and if there was not a try who were attending the dinner. (Laugh-sufficient supply, then a bargain was struck by Scrip No. 380 No. 36,439/36,179-50 shares inter.) Omitting altogether the artless abandon which the purchaser agreed to pay an enhanced of the Colonial Secretary, who admitted that mount after the next slave raid This remem he went to a welding in such a way that he ber. was what was actually going on when the
English came here in April last vear. also the cynical levity of Sir Lewis Mitchell, gards this vexed question of slavery, I do not who expressed his regret that he had not yet institution so far as this country at this stage is palatable as honey and contains all the think that in its essence it is by any means a bad | the "impossible" had been accomplished. It killed a man-(laughter)-he wished to protest,
is concerned. It is the slave-miding and the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod as emphatically as lay in bis power, against slave-catching which are absolutely indefen- Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, the statements of both these gentlemen, that motoring was in its infancy. (Laughter). He sible, and must he put down at once. The combined with the Compound Syrup of knew the child. (Laughter). He did not say actual state of slavery is by no means an un. Hypophosphites, Extracts of Malt and Wild that he was present at its birth, but he helped mixed evil; on the contrary, it has many ad- Cherry. This remedy is freed from the bad to nurse the ricketty thing along. Mr. Kipling vantages, and is only a different form of the peculiarities Dr. Frothingham so detested, and told an amusing story of a visit to the Autom-old feudal system. The slave is of course. is precisely the splendid medicine he wished obile Club at Home, and the particular (ads the absolute property of his master, but the for. Use it freely and confidently for Anemia, prevailing among the members in favour of latter has certain obligations, such as to feed Hysteria, Wasting Complaints, Blood Impuri, their own pet types of machines. He said him, care for him when sick, and, moreover, to ties, Asthma, and Throat and Lung Troubles. that he heard many tales, but he had not heard give him two days out of every week on which Dr. W. B. B. Aikins, F. R. C. P., London,- [714 the latest quotations in dead dogs. (Laughter), he is at liberty to work for himself and cul- M. D. C. M. Victoria University-M. B., He had to come 6,000 miles from Home to tivate his own farm, if he has one. The West Toronto University-Consulting Physician to Home for Incurables, Physician to Toronto South Africa, and then he found that there African is so incurably lazy that, if released was a boom in dead pigs. (Laughter). He from slavery, he will simply turn into a loafer. did not know anything specially about it, but Food is very cheap, and the neople extra- It seemed to be perfectly possible to go out ordinarily hospitable, in that he will never starve. The country would merely be overrun motoring and conduct operations in pigs on a large scale at an approximate profit of about know who always finds work for idle hands with an army of "unemploved," and, since we 25 per cent. (Laughter).
the name of Solomon Sassoon Benjamin.
200 Shares
have been lost or destroved. Notice is hereby given that if within Thirty days from the First June instant no claim or representation in respect of such original certificates is made to the General Managers they will then proceed to deal with such application for duplicates. [713
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Managers. Hongkong, to h June, 1904.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hanekong, 10th J-no 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate at Victoris, Hongkong, to be sold on
FRIDAY,
the 17th day of June, 1904, at 3 P.M.,
BY
Mr GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, at his
SALE ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,
Victoria.
HE Property is Registered in the Land Office as Leland Lot No. 796 together with the Buildings thereon known as Nos, 212, 214, 216, 218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 328 and 230 THIRD STREE", abutting on the North and West sides thereof on Bajtery Road and mea. suring thereon 278 feet 8 inches and 197 feet on the East side thereof on Inland Lot No.797 and measuring thereon 195 feet, and on the South side thereof on Pokfulam Road and measuring thereon 254 feet containing in the whole an area of 49000 square feet and is held from the Crows for the residue of the term of 999 'years granted by a Crown Lease of the Lot, dated the 17th day of June, 1882. Annual Crown Rent $324.
For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to-
EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's Solictors, »
ar to
Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer,
Hongkong, 4th June, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
NOTICE.
have authorized Mr.
WENDA Zorize Mr. WILLIAM DAVID
ARTHUR CARRUTHERS CRUICK. SHANK to sign aur Firm, and to Mr. HERBERT IRVING BELL and to Mr. CHARLES EDWARD ANTON we have Lgiven the signature per procuration.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
17:0 Hongkong, roth June, 194
EMPIRE BUILDING.
LIFE IN NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.
The following are extracts from a private letter recently received in Sydney from an
it
General Hospital, says: "I am much pleased to state that the results from using Wampole's Freparation of Cod Liver Oil have been | uniformly satisfactory; it appealed to me tific principles." It increases the appetite and as being prepared according to correct scien-
Ensurance,
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,
THE Undersigned Aged to accent list
Company are prepared Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co.
Hongkong, z8th May, 1995.
To Let.
TO LET.
No. 1. RIPON TERRACE ia FLATS.
No. 4, RIPON TERRACE
No. 17, WONG NEI'Chong. Road, facing
Race Course.
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Polo Ground.
1
OFFICES in course of erection, CON-
NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST, "ROSENEATH," KOWLOON. No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hoogknue. 7th June, 1904.
1699
TO LET.
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. ·
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
1554 Hongkong, 15th April, rond.
TO LET.
to do, I need hardly say the results would be influences the digestion of food; it is delicious STEWART TERRACE,
appalling.
ENGLISH ADMINISTRATION,
to take, will not disappoint you and is effective from the first dose. "It represents the dawn of progress." At chemists everywhere.
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.
7
10.
THE PEAX.. Apply to→
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
TO LET.
DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147,
In taking over this vast country, we are compelled to use the machinery at hard, faulty though in many ways it it, and we therefore have disturbed things a little as possible, and we have retained the Fulanis in their position. Prepared, during suspension of their WWANCHAI ROAD, Comfortable and
THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an NOT
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company in ALEXANDRA Imperial Army officer, acting as a Resident in Our present plan is to allow them to collect Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, BUILDINGS, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th of June, 1904, at 11 A.M., when the subjoined re- solution which was passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 31st of May, 1994, will be submitted for con- firmation as a Special Resolation.
RESOLUTION.
That the Capital of the Company be in- creased to Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars
by the creation of Thirty Thousand New Shares of Tea Dollars each
By Order,
A. H. MANCELI, Secretary.
Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904,
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A
THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
on
SATURDAY,
the 18th June, 1994, at 2.30 P.M, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,
A FINE COLLECTION
of
OLD AND RARE POSTAGE STAMPS,
Including >-
TRIANGULAR CAPE, OLD CEYLON,
WANTED.
SMALL STORE IN CENTRAL
QUEEN'S ROAD. Apply to-
Hongkong, 9th June, 1904.
TH
NOTICE
COKE AND TAR.
"B. C."
Northern Nigeria:—
This province is about 23,000 square miles extent. I may remind you that the area of Ireland is about 33,000 square miles: so that the Province I am endeavouring to administer is more than two-thirds the size of Ireland. It is. moreover, thickly populated, and the races And the stages of civilisation are various. By far the largest part of the Province is under the sway of the Fulanis, the proud and aristo.
cratic Mahomedan race, which, less than 100 years ago, conquered the entire country from 683 Sokato (pronounced, by-the-way, to rhyme with "cockatoo)" down to the River Benue. Wher ever the Mohamedan faith has taken root a high state of civilisation is found; but even OF among the pagans, who live mostly in hilly districts, where the natural features of the country afford them protection against the raids 1708 of the Fulani horsemen, the people are cen. turies removed from being savages. They are, in fact, an independent typt, and are fine farmers; they grow their own cotton, make their own gowns with it, and have many industries.
THE NATIVES.
HE HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS COMPANY beg to notify the public that Messrs. KUNG HING & Co., 474. Des Voeux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS for the Sale of the Company's COKE and TAR and that all Orders should be sent to the said Agents direct,
r
GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary.
(70r
Hongkong, 8th June, 1924,
MULREADY COVERS, HAWAII, OLD ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.
HONGKONG (including 96 Cents Yellow Brown), MAFEKING BESIEGED, NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY VIEWS, VARIOUS ERRORS,; &c., &c. &c.
Catalogues will be issued.
TERMS AS Jual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 8th June, 1904. '
Intimations.
Marshall and
Elvy's
Patinette
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375lbs. net $4.75 ex Factory.
In Bags of a5obs, net $2,85 ex Factory.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.. General Managers.
Hongkong, 15th August, 1003
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.
(D
PRODUCE the highest Class AERATED
WATERS in the Far Easton account of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are ali under strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
The representative of Messrs. ERATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Acrared Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour Camongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprised at the compactness of our factory and also the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Walers was carried out. He also expressed him- self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured to was equal to any he had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first clanu nature, and they showed that scrupulous - care was exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Order Books and Price List. Please apply to SACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel 567, Depôt, Ice House Street. Tel. 374-4 DEVDANENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG, SANATORY General Managers, Hongkong, both May, 190f
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM---
Of course, I don't want to paint the people of this country as peaceful farmers and arti sans, and nothing else; they still have many unamiable little weaknesses-an inherent love of raiding caravans being one. This is one of the things I am doing my best at present to stop. Only a few months ago an Englishman, coming up with a carayan load from the south found several corpses on the road, the result of a raid by the natives. They considered all caravans fair game, and a caravan fixing its prices always had to consider what margin must be allowed for a possible raid. But, after all, the natives were not alone in acts of this description; the Fulanis used to be constantly miding them and carrying off slaves, and in a country where every man travelled--and travels at this moment with his sword by his side and his bow and arrow slung over his breast, life was cheap and lightly held.
THE FULANIB.
As regards the Fulanis, as I have said, a bun dred years ago they were mere wandering herdsmen, proud and independent, but wilbout any fixed habitat. They lived in shelters, more ing with their cattle wherever the best pasture grounds were to be found. In features they are utterly distinct from the negro, being much lighter in colour, and with the clear-cut, aquí» line features of the Easterns. Indeed, they remind me not a little of the Afghans, being, like them, distinctly Jewish in type. Where [608
they originally came from it is impossible to say for certain. Personally, I cannot doubt- they came from Egypt, and before that again from Central Asia, although I have no fats ta support my theory.
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 11th May, 1904. --
BROKEN-DOWN SYSTEM. This is a condition (or disease) to which doctors gire MANY BRIes, but which low of thens really understand. Itissimply weekness-a break-dowÓ, aals were, ofthe vital forcestini sastala thin system. No matter what maybe itsċauses (for they are al mast numberless),ita symptoms are much the same; the more prominent being deeplessness, senso ci prostration or weariness, depiction of spirits and Now, all the ordinary affairs of life. what akine is absolute y essentially all such cases la increased vitality-vigour-
VITAL STRENGTH & ENERGY to throw off these morbid feelings, and experience - proves thai an night sürereds the day thi may be more certainly secured by a course of the cole- krated reviving tonic
1
THERAPION NË, 3
than by any other knows conkinsṭipn., 6e surely as it is taken in accordance with the printed directions accompanying is, will the shattered bealach borastori de
THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE S
LIGHTED UP AFRESH,
and a new existence imjaried in place of what had so istaly seemed wors-ost, "used-up," and valuedass. This wonderful restorative la parely. kogutabla and innocuona, je igreeable to the taste —suitable for all constituiogt and conditions, int either sajand lè' is difficili jo imagisk'a case of -diaraan or durangement, when main features are - those of debility, that will not be speedily and permanently benoted by the never,falling recu
· POTASİYA SESCUDn, which la destined to cast in oblivion everything thas had preceded it for this wide.oprskandaumerousplat nidumassallments. is sold by
THERAPION the principal
Chemists Groughout the world. Pricola England,
· 1/9 and 43. · Purchasers shenk! see that the word *Tummation? Rupears on British. Gorgermang Mamy (in walte letters, on a rod ground) affred to every package by owday of His Baleary's Kons Commpers, and without which it is a forgep Sold by A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., Hongkong, China and Manila,
FULANI ADMINISTRATION,
и
About the year 1810 they rose up and con- quered all this country, and established them. selves as the ruling race, Introducing a woo- derful system of administration, which is roughly as follows:-The whole country they own is divided up among a large number of big men, each of whom lives in the capital, and has a certain rank. Each of these big man has a retinue of servants, generally one to each town or village, who take all messages, and collects, annually, the jux of each village. These taxes are fixed quantity. At a certain time of the year the headman of each town or village collects the tax from the people; the messenger then arrives from the capital and takes the money, the headman being allowed to retain a share-about a tenth. The messenger
to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING | Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $25 inclusive to SEATTLE, WASH, VICTORIA, B.C., and of Taxes.
And others to suit various requirements. PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER- LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT
S. A. SETH, NORTHERN RAILWAY “FROM SEAT-
Land and Estate Broker, TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the
Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON
149 STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Co., OCEAN
S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL 5. N. Co.
their taxes as before, and then claim from each roling Emir a share of his annual income in return for our expenses in policing the country, keeping up an army, making and Perhaps you will keeping open roads, etc. now be able to judge of the enormous work which a Resident has to get through. If any crime is committed in his 20,000 odd square miles of country he must send out messengers,
For further Particulars, apply at the Com- investigate, and arrest, if possible, the criminal pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE'S or criminals, try, and sentence them.
He BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road; must survey and map out his Province. He must keep an ever-patchful eye in every corner. He must keep a list of every item of merchandise passing through in caravans; make roads; build mud houses for himself, the soldiers, the police, etc.; fix market prices: arrange for all supplies; and last, and greatest of all, must make a list of every town and village in his Province, ascertaining the tax it pays, to whom it pays it, the population, in- dustries, area of cultivation, name of head- man, etc.
THE RESIDENT'S DUTIES.
Besides all this come the office returns and
the Colonial Office makes out its answer to routine, compilation of statistics, from which
questions asked in the House by some inquisi- tive M.P.; lists of all slaves freed, wherewith to satisfy the curiosity of Exeter Hall; estimates of expenditure, and a careful account of every Penny received and expended; letters to the High Commissioner on important political questions, where his sanction is necessary; complicated "cause lists," showing every case tried, verdict, sentence, etc., for the informa
Besides these tion of the Chief Justice, etc. things, he in postmaster, and has to collect and distribute all letters, seal up mail bags, and send them off periodically by mail runners. That one is at work practically day and night is not the whole story. What wears one out is the number of things constantly on one's mind; the long and ever-increasing list of things undone and things "peading." I need hardly say a holiday is unknown. Sunday passes just like any other day-very often 1 don't know it has passed. But there is one thing to be said all the work is simply fascinating in its intenso interest, and onc does not work from a sense of duty, or com- plain of being driven to it, simply because the work is of such extraordinary interest.
WONDERFUL SURGICAL FEAT.
MAN PROVIDED WITH NEW FACE.
Modern surgery rarely undertakes to supply a man with what is practically a new face. According to home papers, however, this dif ficult achievement has been performed with great skild at the London Hospital,
A. S. MIHARA, Manager.
Hongkong, zoth May, 1904.
THE
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44
ROBINSON
PIANO
CO., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME.
SPECIALLY
FINE
SAMPLES
OF
UPRIGHT PIANOS
RACHALS,
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
FOR 18 MONTHS.
LEIGHTOR," THE PEAK,
Apply
JEBSEN & Co. Hongkoax, 27th April, 1954.
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
STUART, THE Undersigned, having been appointed
&c.,
&c.,
AND
&C.
BABY-GRANDS,
BY
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
Some two years ago a man in New Zealand, who was suffering from rodent ulcer, which had deprived him of half of his face, read in a newspaper about the marvels of the X-ray treatment. He determined to try the treat ment, and in three days was aboard a ship bound for London. He was taken in hand by the London Hospital, and cured by the X-rays. Then the hospital authorities gave a new 2650, made of rubber, a new palata, now tenth, and new upper lip, with moustache. The result is ing the space of a Cottage, but with that when he gets back to New Zealand, "his wife won't recognise hifn." Go natural is the the fine appearance and TONE OF A appearance of this sew face that it would be difficult for most people to believe that it was FULL GRAND. not the original one.
| takes the money back to the capital and handa During the Boar war, it is ausertéd, a mÁN it over to his master, who pays him a certain who had had his lower jaw thot sway was also proportion, and finally hands over a part to the created at the London Hospital. He was fitted Emir. Besides this money tax-paid in cowries, with a haw jaw, covered with a lavish beard. the only currency tithe of corn is also paid. A paper representative who saw the portraits annually; and there are also taxaa on tobacco, of both the men referred to can testify that no indigo, onions, and several other products, col-trace of abnormality was noticeable in either jected separately and paid direct to the Emir, of them.
They are only 5FHET LONG, occupy-
Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.
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NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS.
CAPTAIN, the AGENTS, nor
NEITHER the Call be RESPONSIBLE
for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crews of the following Vessel during her stay in Hongkong Harbour:
TROKGATE, British barque, A. Hutton, Master.
AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY OF PARIS, are now prepared to answer Inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at 33 and 24, Bank Buildings.
BARRETTO & CO. Hongkong, 9th June, 1904,
(703
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