Note 1 — Chapter XX · [COMPOSED BY STERN.]
Alphonse Nahuys translation
“And there is still another reason why I cannot go there,” said he. “The present Governor-General will soon resign,——I do not know his successor, nor what I may expect of him.1 In order to do something in time for those poor people, I must speak to the present Governor before his departure, and if I went now to Ngawie, that would be impossible … Tine!”