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Kalahari Desert (desert)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

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'A natural granite pyramid in the Kalahara [Kalahari] Desert, 310 feet in height, caused by the washing away of the softer soils leaving the granite exposed. There are many such in this great southern Desert. 1872', 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/51
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'A natural pyramid of rocks in the Kalahara [Kalahari] Desert 270 feet high. There are several of them found near Kanarders. Taken in 1872', 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/52
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'A sketch of four sand storms passing over the Kalahara [Kalahari] Desert before the rainy season sets in', Dec. 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/45
Scope and Contents The caption reads, 'Some of these gigantic sand storms are 50 feet through and will take up sticks, a man's coat or hat if they are in the line they are travelling. The storm in this sketch took place in December 1874, some three miles from Abekus Pitts and 10 miles south of the sand dunes some 200 feet high. The Pitts are shown on this map. The sand dunes are seen in the sketch that forms the distant hills. The sand columns travel at great speed and follow in line. The atmosphere is full of...
Dates: Dec. 1874
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'A view in the Kalahera [Kalahari] Desert with the game roaming over it. 1874', 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/50
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1874
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baby Bushman learning to shoot with bow and arrow, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/37
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing a child holding a small bow and arrow, with a grass hut in the background. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 24, where the location is identified as Kakea Pan. The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/85
Scope and Contents

122 x 80 mm. The caption continues: ''There are very few of these people left. The last of this large tribe are these here in this area, and they are protected and assisted by the government, as they cannot roam and hunt as they did years ago in S. Africa.' The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [family group?], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/82
Scope and Contents

126 x 76 mm. The caption continues: 'There are very few of these people left. The last of this large tribe are these here in this area, and they are protected and assisted by the government, as they cannot roam and hunt as they did years ago in S. Africa.' The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [group of women and children], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/86
Scope and Contents

125 x 79 mm. The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [two women], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/84
Scope and Contents 81 x 122 mm. The caption continues: ''There are very few of these people left. The last of this large tribe are these here in this area, and they are protected and assisted by the government, as they cannot roam and hunt as they did years ago in S. Africa. The large posterior is common among these people.' The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505...
Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [woman], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/88
Scope and Contents

84 x 123 mm.The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [woman and child], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/83
Scope and Contents

80 x 122 mm. The caption continues: ''There are very few of these people left. The last of this large tribe are these here in this area, and they are protected and assisted by the government, as they cannot roam and hunt as they did years ago in S. Africa.' The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bushmen of the Kalahari [woman and child], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/87
Scope and Contents

82 x 120 mm. The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album d45/001-100 Album No. 1 Bushmen 29505 [BRN350578].

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Bushmen treking over the Desert', 1869 - 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/46
Scope and Contents

The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.

Dates: 1869 - 1874
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cattle and herdboy at watering place at Setekwana, on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert, 1960-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549B/8
Scope and Contents

203 x 155 mm. Showing an African boy driving cattle along a track. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Dates: 1960-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cultivated melons - Kalahari, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/31
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing a plot of ‘Makatane’ or cultivated melons (see Y30549A/4). Reproduced in Hodson facing p 39.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Damara with bow and arrow, Kalahari, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/35
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing a Damara man dressed in animal hides and armed with a bow and arrow.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Elephants on the trek after a drink and a bath in a rainwater Vlei passing north through the central parts of the great South African Desert', 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/55
Scope and Contents

The caption reads, 'Taken in 1874. This sketch gives a general view of that region. There is no part bare of grass which in some places grows to a height of 3 feet.'

Dates: 1874
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group of Bushmen, Kalahari Desert, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/24
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 49.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group of refugee Damaras surrendering at my camp, Melon Country, Kalahari Desert, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/25
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing a group of Damara refugees (see introduction) walking through grassland. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 93 where the location is identified as Otse. Hodson found about 250 refugees at Otse, many of whom were suffering from smallpox and on the verge of starvation. After destroying their arms and giving strict instructions that the group should isolate themselves, Hodson arranged for their transfer to Kgentsa.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Hunting in the Desert. Western Kalahara [Kalahari], 1872', 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/53
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Inspanning oxen, Kalahari, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/3
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing oxen being hitched in a camp in the Kalahari.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kakea Pan, Kalahari Desert, 1904-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/2
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing cattle in the pan at Kakea between Kooi and Kokong, with a brushed shelter in the foreground. Photograph taken during Hodson’s first trek, August 1904. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 24.

Dates: 1904-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Kalahara [Kalahari] Desert. Bechuana hunters going home after a month's hunting, 1869', 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/44
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1869
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Kalahara [Kalahari] Desert looking west, with herds of game, 1872', 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/42
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kalahari boy and girl in national dress, Kalahari, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/27
Scope and Contents

65 x 41 mm. Showing a boy and a woman dressed in animal hides. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 29 where the location is identified as Kokong.

Dates: 1904 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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