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Chief John Naleke, a village elder, can testify firsthand to Ntaiya's powers of persuasion.

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Among the first such adventurers were the two John Tradescants the Elder and his son the Younger, both 17th-century gardeners to royalty and the nobility, who made pioneering expeditions to the Orient and North America.

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