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Max Havelaar

Note 2 — Chapter XV · [COMPOSED BY STERN.]

Alphonse Nahuys translation

The Dutch Government has its coffee-gardens. If a Regent encourages labour in those gardens, or better still, compels men and women to work for nothing in the government gardens,—these government gardens will produce much coffee, and the Regent receives a certain percentage, so much for every pical. ↑

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