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DUTCHMAN

Ah, yes. He must be one of those we did not need at the end of the season.

INDIO

That's why I'm lazy, you see. I don't eat enough dead rats.

DUTCHMAN

He is one who is good for nothing. He sits here and waits for the season to begin again. The better ones find things to do--they go into the army. But this one just thinks of things to steal, of ways to make trouble.

AMONG AUDIENCE

CECIL

It was Batavia at the time. So far as I knew the whole transaction ended there. But the report may have contained inaccuracies.

INDIO

Lying animal!

AMERICAN

What's that?

MOKSA

(To Indio)

Burumba! Do not speak like this! Do not speak to them!

AMERICAN

Haven't you learned respect? Under proper supervision and control, you'd never be allowed to sit idle in this stench! Children run naked in this filth!

MOKSA

Do not beat him again! Do not beat him!