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''Australie - En revenant a Camden, nous tuames un vilain serpent, qu'un Noir s'empressa de prendre a la main, sans montrer aucune repulsion'.
From 'Voyage autour du monde' by Comte de Beauvoir.
Count Ludovic de Beauvoir (1846-1929) was a French traveler of the nineteenth century. When he was only 19, he embarked with his childhood friend the Duke of Penthi_vre for a trip around the world, from 1865 to 1867.
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