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Updated: October 15, 2026
For an hour I lounged in a Cantonese chair beneath the leisurely swinging punkah the motive power for the punkah being provided by a native on the verandah outside, who mechanically pulled the cord even while he slept and chatted of homely things: of a restaurant which we both knew on the Dam in Amsterdam, of bathing on the sands of Scheviningen, of band concerts on summer evenings in the Haagsche Bosch.