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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XXXIX
19/27

"The bulk of the population of India," says Bucklet--[Population to-day, 300,000,000.] -- "is the Sudras--the workers, the farmers, the creators of wealth." Manuel was a failure, poor old fellow.

His age was against him.

He was desperately slow and phenomenally forgetful.

When he went three blocks on an errand he would be gone two hours, and then forget what it was he went for.

When he packed a trunk it took him forever, and the trunk's contents were an unimaginable chaos when he got done.


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