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Book: The Last Galley Impressions and Tales [with Biographical Introduction]
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  1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Last Galley Impressions

    the sweat from his dripping brow. But these slaves-look at them! Some are captured Romans, some Sicilians, many black Libyans, but all are in the last exhaustion, their weary eyelids drooped over their eyes, their lips thick with black crusts, and pink with bloody froth, their arms and backs moving mechanically to the hoarse chant of the overseer. Their bodies of all tints from ivory to jet, are stripped to the waist, and every glistening back shows the angry stripes of the warders. But it is not from these that the blood comes which reddens the seats and tints the salt water washing beneath their manacled
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