The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. (Claude Lévi-Strauss)

The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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