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"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."
"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."
"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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