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Excerpt from Again Sanders
Lord, said Makara eagerly, that is why I came; for soon your lordship will send to us for the rubber and fish which you steal from us every year for your government, and because we are few men we have nothing to give.
Sanders took a cheroot from his pocket and lit it before he replied, his audience watching him anxiously.
Was there tribute when I sent before? Asked Sanders. And when I sent before then, did I find skins and rubber, and before then, even? Makara, your people of all the people on the river pay no tax to my king. And because you are far away and I cannot come in my little ship along the shallow river, I think you laugh at me. Strange stories come along the river to me - of women who hunt and women who fish, and women who build houses. It seems that there is a new race of slaves growing under my eyes slaves who are penned like dogs and beaten like dogs. Which is against all the laws of all the tribes, but terribly against my law. Some day I will come and see.
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