However, he later discovered that this was the name of a Kanuri slave-trader who captured and sold his kinsmen.

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To preserve the honor of the tribe, each member had to be ready to leap to the defense of his kinsmen at a moment's notice and to obey his chief without question.

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See what a scourge is laid upon your hate that finds means to kill your joys with love and I for winking at your discords too have lost a brace of kinsmen.

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Legend has it that way up at King's Cross train station, somewhere under platform No. 9 or 10, lie the remains of the fearless Iceni warlordess Boudica, whom the Romans polished off with about 80, 000 of her kinsmen in A.D. 60.

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Ahmad Saba, a doctor and a member of the powerful Kafarneh clan in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, says he (and, he estimates, some 1, 200 of his kinsmen) has been unable to go to work in Gaza City for three months because of a feud between the Kafarnehs and the city's Dughmush clan.

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