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The AU's 4 350-strong force in Mogadishu has a restricted mandate to guard key government officials and installations such as the seaport, airport and presidential palace, but hardline groups have always seen it as an invading force.— News24
Mount him and ride for your life to the nearest seaport, and so escape by a vessel to some foreign country.— Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
I was born and brought up in a great seaport--Boston--and my earliest memories are of loafing days along the harbor front and the husky-voiced, roaring fellows coming ashore in the pulling boats from the men-o'-war; fine, rolling-gaited fellows, in from long cruises and flamingly eager to make the most of their short liberty.— The U-boat hunters
The name of this seaport was called Tomie by the Portuguese, who formerly had an establishment there; but by the Arabs, Sebah Biure_, i.e. the Seven Wells, because there were seven wells of excellent water 139 there: three of them, however, when we visited this port, were filled up and useless.— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

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