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During the Imjin War, Mozambican soldiers served under the Ming dynasty. Called "Sea Ghosts," they dove underwater to puncture holes in Japanese warships. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty recorded them as having "faces black as lacquer, lurking beneath the sea."
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