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vernment pawnshops save the very poor from getting into debt from
which the only escape used to be free labour given to the creditor.
Another object kept in view is the exclusion of the Indian and Chi
naman from this already over-populated island. A thirty rupee
landing tax effects this successfully.
Th9 easiest way of quickly acquiring a knowledge of the surroun
ding country in Java is to „ask a German," of whom there are about
eight hundred in residence there. They outnumber the British by quite
four to one.
I. M. T. 1913. 70.
