Note 4 — Chapter XI · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]
Alphonse Nahuys translation
“I knew a little girl in Sumatra,” he continued, “the daughter of a datoo4 … well then, I am certain that she had no claim to such imperfection; and yet I saw her fall into the water in a shipwreck just like another. I, a man, had to help her to land.”