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“I am a great chief: no one ever sees me sing, no one ever sees me eat; no one has ever sat at table with me.”
As reported by Henri Gouraud · Reply to Captain Henri Gouraud on the march after his capture, October 1898, in Général Gouraud, Au Soudan : souvenirs d'un Africain (Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939), section « Comment Samory savait toujours nous échapper »
Context Explaining to his French captor how he had eluded their columns for years, he described the distance a ruler keeps from everyone around him, and the informants he had placed among French officers.
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