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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XXXIX
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But that is because you are not used to "bearer" English.

You will presently understand.
Where he gets his English is his own secret.

There is nothing like it elsewhere in the earth; or even in paradise, perhaps, but the other place is probably full of it.

You hire him as soon as you touch Indian soil; for no matter what your sex is, you cannot do without him.

He is messenger, valet, chambermaid, table-waiter, lady's maid, courier--he is everything.


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