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Page 228
... jungle , he had known of only one authority : Brits - Jansen , and one superior : Dr. Kramer . In Batavia he found that he had scores of superiors , to all of whom he had to show a carefully graded respect . He remembered nurses telling ...
... jungle , he had known of only one authority : Brits - Jansen , and one superior : Dr. Kramer . In Batavia he found that he had scores of superiors , to all of whom he had to show a carefully graded respect . He remembered nurses telling ...
Page 328
... jungle as if it were one gigantic living organism , which had been motionlessly watching them all those hours ; swarms of birds swooped out of the trees and the undergrowths , squawking and chattering , clouds of fiery butterflies ...
... jungle as if it were one gigantic living organism , which had been motionlessly watching them all those hours ; swarms of birds swooped out of the trees and the undergrowths , squawking and chattering , clouds of fiery butterflies ...
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... jungle , was unexpected . After dark , as he lay underneath his shelter of branches and palm leaves , listening to the sounds of the night , he felt no fear . Instead of being beset by the panic that he remembered so clearly from his ...
... jungle , was unexpected . After dark , as he lay underneath his shelter of branches and palm leaves , listening to the sounds of the night , he felt no fear . Instead of being beset by the panic that he remembered so clearly from his ...
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Annema answered arrived asked Atjeh Banjermasin Batavia beer Bert Bert's Betsy Bevers body bottle boy's Breszezinska-Jansen Brits-Jansen Burubi Captain coolies cried darkness djongos doctor door drink Dutch East Indies eyes face fear feeling fell felt Flabbinga forest Frolick Ganwitz girl hair hand head heard Holland Homo Heidelbergensis hour Jansen Javanese jungle kiss knew Kramer Labuan lamp lepers leprosy letter listening looked Madurese Mamawi mandur Manokwari morning mosquito mouth native never night once opened panting Papuans parang Piet Kramer prahu pulled Rattan realized round rustling Salvarsan Salvation Army Salvationist screamed seemed shoulders silence sleep slowly smell smile smoke sound staring started Stegomyia stood suddenly Sultan talk Teddy thing thought took totok tried tuan turned underneath voice waiting wanted Waterreus whispered wilderness Willem witch doctor Witzenburg