"When the trail had led them far
into the hamlet, at times winding around thick bamboo trunks the size
of a man’s leg, at times skirting bamboo hedges hollowed at the base
with openings so that peering through them they saw the dwellers, they
stopped at what they saw.
Lepers had come out in front of their
huts, as if they had watched the trail for visitors. They materialized
from behind the giant bamboo trunks, emerging through man-sized holes in
the hedges. Limbless dwarfs, hideous deformed humans. Some limped, some
crawled, some were pushed sitting on little box carts, some, blind,
were led by the hand."
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