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If I go to sleep and the fires die down, who knows but wild beasts may come upon us and kill us before we can seize our arms.

— R. M. Ballantyne The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861)

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To sleep at your post! shame on you! Had you been a sentinel in time of war that nod would have cost you your life, supposing you to have been caught in the act.

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I know something about the monkey tribes, but I cannot say that at this moment I remember any particular habit of which we might avail ourselves.

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