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THERE's a man called The Pug-Nosed Man who appears one day in a bar and speaks only in interrogative sentences, except for his first and last lines. There's a pimp called Baboon who operates out of a Chinese flophouse and acts like a henchman for a Malay lumber dealer who tries to bribe a librarian to say the book he wants to borrow is a good one. A Salvation Army preacher (name unknown) whose skin is so thick "it bends anything you stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition...
...striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
When the Portuguese landed on the south coast of the island in 1526, they called it Papua, after a Malay word that described the fuzzy hair of the inhabitants. When the Spanish claimed the north coast 19 years later, they called it New Guinea, because they thought the natives resembled those on the Guinea Coast of Africa. Since the two territories became jointly administered by Australia in 1949, they have gone by the hybrid mouthful of Papua New Guinea. The region is scheduled to become a single, self-governing nation in December, and the search...
...fishing and one for leisure. Education is voluntary, but "school days may end abruptly," notes Clunies-Ross. "Anyone who doesn't respond or is lazy gets sacked." Children go to work at 14, usually as apprentices in a trade. Clunies-Ross said that he did not want the Malay children to have an Australian standard of education because it would lead to a brain drain...
...children. When couples marry they are given a two-bedroom asbestos house. The Clunies-Rosses themselves do not observe such strictures, however; the ruler and his English-born wife Daphne have five children and live in a two-story mansion, cared for by five house girls dressed in Malay costumes with hibiscus blooms in their long black hair...