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Page 167
... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last batch of the mine coolies was leaving Samburan . Heyst ...
... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last batch of the mine coolies was leaving Samburan . Heyst ...
Page 168
... Wang came round the house , and standing below , raised up his yellow , thin face . " All finish ? " he asked ... Wang unemotion- ally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the ...
... Wang came round the house , and standing below , raised up his yellow , thin face . " All finish ? " he asked ... Wang unemotion- ally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the ...
Page 169
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never invited again . Wang not only knew how to live according ...
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never invited again . Wang not only knew how to live according ...
Page 170
... Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering the Malay word “ makan , ” would force him to climb out to a meal . Wang in his native province in China might have been an aggressively , sensitively genial ...
... Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering the Malay word “ makan , ” would force him to climb out to a meal . Wang in his native province in China might have been an aggressively , sensitively genial ...
Page 171
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its prod- uce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its prod- uce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
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