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1 In the rear was the beef herd, on which the outfit depended for food .
2 Both sides depended for food on foraging, and between them they had swept the country clean.
3 The army depended for food partly upon the cultivated patches around the Assim villages, partly on supplies brought up from the rear.
4 Had he depended for food or shelter on his fellow-citizens of the settlement he would soon have met with betrayal and denouncement.
5 Each head-hunter carried rice in a rattan basket, but he depended for food mainly on sago-palms and wild animals that were killed.
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