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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: demanding another saucepan. He hurled objurgations, in the
Canton dialect and bad Malay, against the group of slave-girls
standing a little way off, half frightened, half amused, at his
violence. From the camping fires round which the seamen of the
frigate were sitting came words of encouragement, mingled with
laughter and jeering. In the midst of this noise and confusion
Babalatchi met Ali, an empty dish in his hand.
"Where are the white men?" asked Babalatchi.
"They are eating in the front verandah," answered Ali. "Do not
stop me, Tuan. I am giving the white men their food and am
busy."
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