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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Think happen so.

Father same name, not mother." I saw that I must simplify my language and spread my words apart, if I would be understood by this English scholar.
"Well--then--how--did--your--father--get--his name ?" "Oh, he,"-- brightening a little--"he Christian--Portygee; live in Goa; I born Goa; mother not Portygee, mother native-high-caste Brahmin--Coolin Brahmin; highest caste; no other so high caste.

I high-caste Brahmin, too.

Christian, too, same like father; high-caste Christian Brahmin, master--Salvation Army." All this haltingly, and with difficulty.

Then he had an inspiration, and began to pour out a flood of words that I could make nothing of; so I said: "There--don't do that.


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