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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XXXIX
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He carries a coarse linen clothes-bag and a quilt; he sleeps on the stone floor outside your chamber door, and gets his meals you do not know where nor when; you only know that he is not fed on the premises, either when you are in a hotel or when you are a guest in a, private house.

His wages are large--from an Indian point of view--and he feeds and clothes himself out of them.

We had three of him in two and a half months.

The first one's rate was thirty rupees a month that is to say, twenty-seven cents a day; the rate of the others, Rs.

40 (40 rupees) a month.


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