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THE SURAKARTA

so loudly that he woke up Baraka, who wass sleeping in the room—he tore the baper off the box into many strips, roughly and boldly, all round. This wass certainly very, very stupid. Would my clever landlord, Mr. Hereford, be so stupid? Also, it wass very, very fearless. Could he be so fearless? My friendts, I haf lived the most of my life in dark continents and in islands where there are millions of peoples so unhuman that you and peoples here will nefer know the truth about them, because nobody who has seen those peoples dares to write or print openly what he has seen. I have seen men of intelligence so low that it iss not easy to tell if they are animals or men—stupid as to tear bapers loudly away from a box: but I have nefer seen any man of intel-