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"I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me"
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Richard Francis Burton
between March 19, 1821 and October 19, 1890. He/she was a famous
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