The Distant Journey

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Elias. The shout came from the guardhouse, sharp and cracking against the humidity, a sound that split the heavy air of the penal colony. I did not look up. I was scrubbing a pair of trousers that smelled of salt and old sweat, the lye burning into the raw skin of my palms. The year was 1892, and I was thirty-four years old, a man who had traded his name for a number and his life for a...

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