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equator_40_twain_64kb_0004	[ { "end": 26.015, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "ceremonials are always interesting and I noted that the Indian good morning is a ceremonial, whereas ours doesn't amount to that. In salutation the sun reverently touches the father's forehead with a small silver implement tipped with vermilion paste whi...	[ [ [ 3535, 2868, 3136, 1020, 2286, 264, 555, 10, 2747, 1129, 2719, 2298, 3034, 3804, 939, 3511, 3626, 2542, 3210, 2362, 1462, 1397, 1363, 696, 39, 3019, ...	30.48
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equator_66_twain_64kb_0009	[ { "end": 28.677, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "by liquefying the evidence of the prejudiced books and of the prejudiced Parliamentary witnesses, and stirring the whole together and pouring it into my own prejudiced moulds I have got at the truth of that puzzling South African situation which is this ...	[ [ [ 2229, 1131, 348, 3829, 1759, 3271, 1604, 3974, 342, 3863, 813, 1313, 2873, 342, 2754, 2421, 121, 1972, 3398, 2466, 1414, 2995, 2131, 3738, 360, 3976, ...	104.08
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equator_22_twain_64kb_0014	[ { "end": 20.111, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "a native, about twenty five years of age, once applied to me as a doctor to extract the wooden barb of a spear, which, during a fight in the bush, some four months previously, had entered his chest, just missing the heart, and penetrated the viscera to a...	[ [ [ 2884, 3844, 452, 3961, 3254, 3766, 17, 4043, 427, 337, 2240, 828, 860, 706, 310, 209, 3560, 815, 1912, 1754, 2230, 740, 1782, 3756, 3823, 3888, 23...	77.6
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