Immune from climatic diseases, working early and late, tolerant and unaggressive, the iron hand in the velvet glove disentangles and grasps the threads of the most complicated commercial enterprise, for the idle Malay, "the gentleman of the East," here as elsewhere, cares for little beyond the sport of hunting and fish-spearing, which satisfies the personal necessities of his indolent existence.
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Biraghi disentangles himself, kills his antagonist, and jumps upon the latter's horse.
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It disentangles itself with difficulty from the baggage wagons, and is wedged tighter still among the troops.
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