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a bottle. Since then things have changed. Who is responsible for the abolition of that wholesome law I do not know, but whoever it is, he has maimed the population of their islands. Now the natives are allowed to [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] buy -individually and collectively - as much spirits as they can find money to pay for. The "community" imports it by the wholesale, and on the big holydays it is divided up according to "shares". G. told me that they took out for today 200 rubles worth. It is big prasnik-Preobrazhevski - the transformation - and [[strikethrough]] all the [[/strikethrough]] every [[ercing?]]
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