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Rudolf KrejÄŤĂ: Cesta kolem svÄ›ta 1893-1898 / Jan Welzl ("Travels Around the World 1893-1898 / Jan Welzl"); Pravda a fikce o ĹľivotÄ› Jana Welzla ("Truth and
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and claimed they voted him as their chief. This fact and others about his contacts with the indigenous population of the far north is hard to prove. It is not even certain if he knew the
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