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Communications in LebanonTelephones - main lines in use: 330,000 (1995)Telephones - mobile cellular: 120,000 (1995) Telephone system:
telecommunications system severely damaged by civil war; rebuilding well underway
Radio broadcast stations: AM 20, FM 22, shortwave 4 (1998) Radios: 2.85 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 28 (1997) Televisions: 1.18 million (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 19 (1999) Country code (Top-level domain): LB
to you."
"Pshaw! You can only have one minute of surprise, and you can have
what you've got--the thing that's kept you go/good.html">good-tempered while we lie
long story.html">story, but I will make it short. Once there was a pirate.html">pirate called
some kegs--gold.html">gold, gold! He hid it in a cave, wrapping around it the dead
it, and sailed away. He was captured, and sent to prison.html">prison in France for
into the bay.html">bay.html">bay, but his ship.html">ship went down.html">down within sight of the place. And so
first voyage. He had been put in prison also. He did not get away as
I know, the Free-and-Easy, that sails to Havre, and told him the story,
but said he would bring him over on the next voyage. Gobal come to me
Pretty Pierre told me once he saw Brigond's ship go down in the bay; but
like that, and--"
"Why didn't he get the gold himself?"
"What is money.html">money to him? He is as a gipsy. To him the money is cursed.
I told Gobal I would give the man.html">man.html">man.html">man the Ninety-Nine for the cruise and
taking out first enough to make a dot for you and a fine handful for
Away went Gobal four months ago, and I get a letter from him weeks past,
July, with the man.
"Well, it is a great game. The man is a pirate, but it does not matter--
like that, so I said to you, Come."
"But, father--"
"If you do not like you can go on with Gobal in the Free-and-Easy, and
for Gobal. He promised to stop just outside this bay and land our man on
had been cradled in it, reared in it, lived with it, and here was no law-
was, or what people were robbed by Brigond and those others? Gold--that
on a cruise which would not be, as it were, sailing in forbidden waters.
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