Episode 6.
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Chapter 3. Bandits torment the Tanganyikan lakeshore people. Shimmer, a young curragh paddler, leads The Nation towards an eastern land remembered in the oldest legends. He is married to Ahalya. Two thousand people make a line of boats and rafts two miles long. The portage to a long river flowing east. Shimmer and Ahalya's first child, a daughter, arrives.
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