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He bought a horse which he named "Belle", four additional pack animals, hired a Korena youth named Manyoungi as body servant (at $17.50 a month), and an interpreter and two mapus (grooms), and struck out to the northward, reaching Ping Yang on March 5, the first correspondent to reach that far north into the war zone.
JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010
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Each of the four _Uthal-mapus_ is governed by a _Toqui_.
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_ Hence the whole country contains 4 _Uthal-mapus_, 20 _Ailla-regues_, and 180 _Regues_.
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_mapus_ (horsemen) and the coolie-carriers who constitute, probably, the best-formed and best-governed guild in the country.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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