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"ref": "2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro",
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"ref": "2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro",
"text": "It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.",
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"ref": "2006, Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya",
"text": "...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee, who lived near the Tsavo boundary.",
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"An elder (old person)."
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"(East Africa) An elder (old person)."
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