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1949
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As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. "Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack."
Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it.
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― The Phantom Shark
― The Phantom Shark
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Plenty of blanks in the world's charts. There will have to be a lot surveying before all of them are filled in.
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― The Phantom Shark
― The Phantom Shark
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