Scented Isles And Coral Gardens Torres Straits German New Guinea And the Dutch
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They would have their tree for the children from the village, and the old nuns would ask for " Monsieur I'Ecossais " and throw up hands and eyes in amazement to learn he had gone amongst cannibal savages in a land they had never heard of. In Germany, in Italy, in many lands they would speak of me and wonder where I was, but they none of them 16 242 DUTCH EAST INDIES could picture such surroundings as I was really amidst. It is but a sad time, Christmas, when we are no longer children. There see...med no Gluck- liche Weihnachten about it somehow. We discuss on the ship many subjects, ranging from Goethe and Schiller to the politics of to-day. And Bismarck he never dies even in this hot weather he is with us. " Bismarck would never do this or would have done that"; but there would have been no German Colonial Empire, no dream of this Weltpolitik, had Bismarck had his way. He was the man of his time, but his time is not this time. And there is the Boer War ! How kind it was of us to present such an interesting spectacle to the world, and how keen and sym- pathetic towards us was the feeling displayed !
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