Koepanger

Koepanger
1. noun
A Timorese person.

Up above, the tender kept a sharp eye on the Koepanger paying out the air-pipe, while attending to the life-line himself and the management of the lugger.

Timorese.

Upi, the Koepanger charm doctor, slept in the same room.


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