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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds |
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all Konyak women slim and mostly attractive |
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I must admit that I could never share the opinion of my Wakching friends. For me the missing width of skirt did not lessen the charm of the Shiong girls. Climbing up the steep mountain with their high loads of fire-wood, their lithe, elastic bodies seemed immensely more beautiful than the figures on many a fashionable bathing-beach. I never saw a fat Konyak woman; even after innumerable pregnancies they preserve the slimness of youth in some miraculous way, and you are spared the sight of those pendulous breasts which are so frequent among other races. |
