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Lush sultry scents fill my nostrils spices and exotic flowers blooms first encounter with dark people my, they were scarey like pirates Armed with enormous panga's and wickedly nasty looking knives at almost 8 years old I shook violently when one looked at me grinning gruesomely I shrank back against my mother, my haven, never had I seen such delightful sights junk boats sailing round us, their crew most motley, in a range of multi colors Waving their enormous panga's at us gold teeth gleaming, it was so scarey I was glad to sail on to Dar-es-Salaam many horrendous nightmares I then suffered Little knowing that Dar was just the same some steps I now had taken into the unknown so many fears still lay in the future and beyond a totally new yet dangerous world lay ahead of me I am describing an overnight stop at Zanzibar at my young age it was a fearful very exciting experience written 09/04/2013 contest Fragment