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Title: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cabaton, Antoine, b. 1863 Miall, Bernard, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e recruitfor the Dutch Colonial army. He is brave somewhat asthe ancient Greek was brave, who would rush upon theenemy with heroic courage when he saw that victory waspossible, but who would fly without shame from an enemyobviously too powerful. He has no uncontrollable loveof danger; perhaps because he saw long ago that his lifewas too readily sacrificed by others ; but his sense ofdiscipline rarely allows him to abandon a post, howeverdangerous. As for his fearing my Lord the Tiger —as all the natives of the Far East fear him—and attemptingto flatter him by soft words and courteous phrases, thematter is easily comprehensible in a country in which thetigers victims are counted by hundreds year after year.The Javanese feels himself naked and defenceless beforeso formidable an enemy, and is afraid; the European, ofa different mettle, armed with a heavy rifle, should cer-tainly encounter the tiger with a better countenance. Itis, perhaps, hardly fair to speak of the cowardice of the
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A WAYAXG : JAVANESE PLAYERS.

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