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Updated: July 11, 2025
But the greatest of modern Dutch authors, and the one who may be termed the forerunner of the renaissance of 1880, was E. Douwes Dekker, who died thirteen years ago. Dekker had an eventful career. He went to the Dutch Indies at the age of twenty-one, and there spent some seventeen years in official life, gradually rising to the position of Assistant Resident of Lebac.
The way in which the Javanese suffered by this system of compulsory labour for the profit of the home country the amount received by the Dutch treasury being not less than 250 million florins in thirty years was now scathingly exposed by the brilliant writer Douwes Dekker.
I count the nights, because I watched during the greater part of them, in the hope of seizing the moment of the passage of some star over the meridian. That I might have nothing to reproach myself with, I kept the instruments always ready for an observation. I could not even obtain double altitudes, to calculate the latitude by the method of Douwes.
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