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1  The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.
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2  The two below me moved away then a few paces, and strolled back and forth at some little distance.
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3  This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be.
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4  The twigs overhung the current thickly, and from distance to distance a large limb of some tree projected rigidly over the stream.
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5  You remember I told you I had been struck at the distance by certain attempts at ornamentation, rather remarkable in the ruinous aspect of the place.
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6  I put down the glass, and the head that had appeared near enough to be spoken to seemed at once to have leaped away from me into inaccessible distance.
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7  The manager stood by the wheel murmuring confidentially about the necessity of getting well away down the river before dark at all events, when I saw in the distance a clearing on the river-side and the outlines of some sort of building.
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8  Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest, and near the river two bronze figures, leaning on tall spears, stood in the sunlight under fantastic headdresses of spotted skins, warlike and still in statuesque repose.
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