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...crop; yet one-third of Bolivia's population continues to live in the Andes, scratching a barely human existence out of dwindling tin deposits. In Indonesia, three-quarters of the nation's close to 90 million people live in cheek-by-jowl squalor on the island of Java, while most of neighboring Sumatra is left in jungle. But habit and human contrariness being what it is, few Javanese will even consider moving to fertile Sumatra. And in Uganda, tribesmen from the overpopulated hills, hopefully resettled in the lowlands by the government, frequently trek back home after their...
...regarded them as rivals. The Spanish in the Philippines were nearly wiped out before they rallied to slaughter 23,000 Chinese at Manila in 1603. At midcentury, a Chinese exile and pirate named Koxinga drove the Dutch from Formosa; later the Dutch retaliated by wholesale murders of Chinese on Java. But the colonial powers and the Overseas Chinese soon recognized that they were destined to be allies, not enemies. The one supplied technology and power, the other shrewdness and hard work; between them they reaped the fortune of the Indies...
Maria Dermout is a little old (71) Dutch lady who remembers the life she led in Java before the European was seriously challenged, a time long ago when all daddies were rich and most mammas were good-looking. When Author Dermout's first book. The Ten Thousand Things, showed up in the U.S. last year (TIME. March 3). it seemed too good to be true: an I-remember-I-remember exercise in graceful recollection that almost never stumbled into teary nostalgia. Her second book simply proves once again that no art is so sweet as artlessness, no truth...
...Bill tells it now, in 1929 he saw the stock-market crash coming at him one way and talkies the other, so he broke up the old act and left the country. With his wife, he drifted east via South Africa and Australia, did routines in Peking, Tsingtao, Manila, Java and Shanghai. Then he put in two weeks at Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, looked over the city and decided: "This is the place...
...Dutchmen say they have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles, may be the sole survivors...