In Search of an Unknown Race — page 112: what you’re looking at

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102 VAN. With her soft dark eyes shining through tear drops, she spoke of the mother she had lost in helpless infancy. She told of the loving care of her father, who from the first had shown a desire that his Ninada should learn and know of European manners and customs so far as they did not conflict with those peculiar to the province of Itambez. So it was that she not only spoke his own language as readily as that of her country, but she was by no means ignorant of the social laws and requirements of ordinary civilization, as well as of a great many other matters pertaining to the world without, all of which had been told and taught her by her father. GCOMIGchooks (E(0)