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"That is the place," said Dain, indicating with the blade of his paddle a small islet about a mile ahead of the canoe -- "that is the place where Babalatchi promised that a boat from the prau would come for me when the sun is overhead. We will wait for that boat there."
Almayer, who was steering, nodded without speaking, and by a slight sweep of his paddle laid the head of the canoe in the required direction.