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The man was leaning against the rock.
He gazed away from us as we approached.
He was over six feet tall and very thin.
His legs were narrow and very long.
Every bone and muscle in his body showed, but he did not give the appearance of starving.
He had long black hair and a wispy beard.
The ridges over his eyes were huge and his eyelids were half shut.
There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.
It was not merely that flies were crawling over his face but his narrowed eyelids did not blink when the flies crawled into his eye sockets.
A fly would crawl down the bulging forehead, into the socket of the eye, walk along the man's lashes and across the wet surface of the eyeball, and the eye did not blink.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.

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