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Arunga was the woman I had stolen from the hill-tribes.
Chapter 21 2010
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Healthy examples of this lifestyle abound: certain hill-tribes in Cambodia let siblings have sex, and the Indian Kukis are pretty much up for anything!
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'I don't expect you to have heard of them,' Renata continued, 'but in the highlands of North Vietnam and Southern China live hill-tribes called, collectively, the Nungs.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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The Nungs were among the men selected from the mountain hill-tribes of North Vietnam, who often provided Science Fiction with troops and intelligence to fight Charlie.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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It was not that he feared any particular evil at the moment, but in his present desperate circumstances, utterly stranded in these wilds among savage hill-tribes, he knew not at any moment when a savage enemy might appear.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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I served twenty-seven years among the hill-tribes of northern India in one capacity and another, and once I served in a
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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The aborigines are represented by a few rude hill-tribes, who resemble in physique the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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It proved to be the outcome of a blood-feud, one of those savage vendettas so common among the hill-tribes of Burmah.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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The Burmese are really as devoted to demonolatry as the hill-tribes who are labelled plain spirit-worshippers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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He convinced himself, by studying the question at first hand, that the Baluch Am [= i] rs, who ruled the country, were not only aliens but oppressors of the native peasantry, not only ill-disposed to British policy, but actively plotting with the hill-tribes beyond the Indus, and at the right moment he struck.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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