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When thinking of his rise in the world commander of ships, then shipowner, then a man of much capital, respected wherever he went, Lingard in a word, the Rajah Laut he was amazed and awed by his fate, that seemed to his ill-informed mind the most wondrous known in the annals of men. His experience appeared to him immense and conclusive, teaching him the lesson of the simplicity of life.
Very long . . . How much time it takes for a man to die! O Rajah Laut!" Lingard started. "You know me!" he exclaimed. "Ay wa! I have seen your face and felt your hand before many years ago," said Babalatchi, holding on halfway up the ladder, and bending down from above to peer into Lingard's upturned face. "You do not remember but I have not forgotten.
Captain Swan being dismist from the Sultan, with abundance of civility, after about two Hours Discourse with him, went thence to Raja Laut's House. Raja Laut had then some difference with the Sultan, and therefore he was not present at the Sultan's reception of our Captain, but waited his return, and treated him and all his Men with boiled Rice and Fowls.
Their Bark eaten up, and their Ship endangered by the Worm. Of the Worms here and elsewhere. Of Captain Swan. Raja Laut, the General's Deceitfulness. Hunting wild Kine. The Prodigality of some of the English. Captain Swan treats with a Young Indian of a Spice-Island. A Hunting Voyage with the General. His punishing a Servant of his. Of his Wives and Women. A sort of strong Rice-drink.
"Then, Rajah Laut," whispered Jaffir, "you can make all safe by giving them back." "Can I do that?" were the words breathed out through Lingard's lips to the faithful follower of Hassim and Immada. "Can you do anything else?" was the whispered retort of Jaffir the messenger accustomed to speak frankly to the great of the earth. "You are a white man and you can have only one word. And now I go."
He told me also, that being one day in a canoe with his father and mother, they were taken by some fishers belonging to Mindanao, who sold them to the interpreter of Rajah Laut, with whom he and his mother lived as slaves for five years, and were then sold for fifty dollars to Mr Moody.
Much better. Splendid! Why, of course. And that baby would be the richest woman in the world. He Lingard would not, perhaps, see it although he felt good for many years yet but Almayer would. Here was something to live for yet! Hey? But the richest woman in the world had been for the last five minutes shouting shrilly "Rajah Laut! Rajah Laut! Hai!
About this time some of our Men, who were weary and tired with wandring, ran away into the Country and absconded, they being assisted, as was generally believed, by Raja Laut.
However, the General Raja Laut, would not pardon him, but punished him according to their own Custom, which I did never see but at this time. He was stript stark naked in the Morning at Sunrising, and bound to a Post, so that he could not stir Hand nor Foot, but as he was mov'd; and was placed with his Face Eastward against the Sun.
He speculated for a while hazily upon things in general. She was a Sirani woman and ugly. He made a disdainful grimace, picked up the bedding, and went about his work, slinging the hammock between two uprights of the verandah. . . . Those things did not concern him. She was ugly, and brought here by the Rajah Laut, and his master spoke to her in the night. Very well. He, Ali, had his work to do.
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