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Posted: 08 Jul 2023

Taken: 08 Jul 2023

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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO •
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 Dinesh
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Most of the people here (Waypoti village) had never seen a pin, and the better informed took a pride in teaching their more ignorant companions the peculiarities and uses of that strange European production – a needle with a head, but no eye! Even paper, which we throw away hourly as rubbish, was to tyhem a curiosity; and I often saw them picking up little scraps which had been swept out of the house, and carefully putting them away in their betel-pouch,. Then when I took my morning coffee and evening tea, how many were the strange things displayed to them! Teapot, teacups, teaspoons, were all more or less curious in their eyes; tea, sugar, biscuit, and butter were articles of human consumption seen by many of them for the first time. . . . Page 295

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