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Updated: May 13, 2025
It became a live question; I determined to treat it as one, and settle it. I stopped a fat Dutchman who was paddling down the middle of the street in his pyjamas, smoking a cigar. "Pardon, Mynheer," I said. "Does a man live here in Jacatra-weg named Erberveld?" "Nej," he shook his big shaved head. "Nej, Mynheer, I do not know." "Pieter Erberveld," I suggested. The man broke into a horse-laugh.
You may guess the rest, if you know your history of Java. I didn't then, and didn't even know Batavia, had been ashore often, but only for a toelatingskaart and some good Dutch chow. Well, one afternoon, I was loafing down a street, and suddenly noticed that the sign-board said, "Jacatra-weg." The word made me jump, and brought the whole affair on Celebes back like a shot, and not as a dream.
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