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  • Most of the cultivators in the region are Bantu, the dominant ethnic group that includes Lese, Mamvu, Bira, Ndaka, and Budu.

    Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

  • It was only ten in the morning when we arrived at Budu, and, though there were plenty of people about, I could not induce them to allow me to go on to the next village.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Budu, thanks for the news. nads went at 11: 54 turn back | go forth diary now then id notes guestbook exit points

    Perhaps I should start reading the papers... naddywoman 2002

  • As a final illustration, we have the stories told by Stalin's nephew, Budu Svandidze, who has produced a rather admiring book on his Uncle Josef.

    After Stalin—What? 1953

  • So the King gave him the command of the army, and they marched to Budu and built a great fort and drove back the enemy and killed thousands of warriors, and when those who were left saw Stranger commanding the Baganda they were afraid, for he wore strange clothes made of barkcloth, and they said: "He is a wizard; we cannot fight against him."

    The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda 1922

  • After some time the King heard that a great army was marching against his country, and he collected his soldiers and made his chiefs generals over them, and prepared to march to Budu, where the enemy was advancing.

    The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda 1922

  • It was only ten in the morning when we arrived at Budu, and, though there were plenty of people about, I could not induce them to allow me to go on to the next village.

    The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Uru-milki the Gublite, Mitinti the Ashdodite Budu-ilu the Beth Ammonite, Kammusu-nadbi the Moabite, Malik-rammu the Edomite, kings of Amurru, all of them, numerous presents as their heavy tribute, they brought before me for the fourth time, and kissed my feet.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Uru-milki the Gublite, Mitinti the Ashdodite Budu-ilu the Beth Ammonite, Kammusu-nadbi the Moabite, Malik-rammu the Edomite, kings of Amurru, all of them, numerous presents as their heavy tribute, they brought before me for the fourth time, and kissed my feet.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • And if you go to the province of Budu you will see the fort which Stranger helped the King to build, for the ruins are still there, and the snowbirds never left Uganda, you will always see them with the cows; but if you ask about little "Joy," whom her father called Sorrow, the people will shake their heads and say: "Perhaps there was a little girl, perhaps it was a spirit, perhaps it was only a snowbird – who knows?"

    The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda 1922

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