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money-making. All that they scheme and dream about the wholeday is how to get rich and build mansions. Most of the emigrantshave come from the Swatow and Amoy regions. The Teochews(people from Swatow) regard going abroad a simple matter. Manyhave sailed at a very young age. They came to the distant SouthSeas which they considered “barbarian”. Within they entertained abeautiful vision, and that was that when they returned one day insplendour they would get married and settle down. The followingis a “Going Abroad” song quite current in Swatow. In this folksong you can see the aspirations of those emigrants.There’s a swan in the sky –Younger brother is married, elder brother nigh.Younger brother begets a son who calls me Uncle.Uncle is shameful, and knows not how?Let me pack up and go to Siam now!The sea runs far –Where’s the filial heart for Pa and Ma?Without a wife,All within’s a strife.I bow good-bye to Mother dearTo go to Siam to breed hogs.Whatever money I make I’ll send,For a wife in China I will slog.Nevertheless, for the Chinese to go abroad was no easymatter. He came from a semi-colonial country without anybacking from his nation. Without education, he drifted to acolonial territory. This was a painful experience, not to talk of hisbeing cast upon the waves. So, there were a great many when theytasted the bitterness of sea-sickness would gnash their teeth, “Iswear I must by all means make some money and get back toenjoy my days.” But they did not know that in the South Seasthere grows a fruit called the durian with such attraction as wouldhold them back!76
The durian tree is very tall. Its fruit is uncolourful and is asbig as a pomelo. Its husk is thick and full of thorns. Its taste isrich, sweet and fragrant, but paradoxically it smells obnoxious tothe newcomers. While being rejected by the newcomers they arelife to the old addicts. It is said that connoisseurs of durian wouldlinger in the new land and forget all about their fatherland andhome. As a matter of fact, it is not that the durian contains anymagical power. Rather it is money and sex that are the attraction.It is said that the South Seas girls are very romantic. Polygamyand divorce are freely practised. The South Seas lie in the tropicalbelt. Productivity is high and life is simple. A man can easilymaintain the livelihood of several others. A woman needs onlyfood and clothing and would easily go and live with anybody.Before, the natives of the South Seas were uneducated andlamentably stupid. But no matter how stupid the Chinese, theywere smarter and therefore could easily make the money. Thus asimpleton from the village in China, who was suddenlytransported from a hardworking farmer’s life to a land of wine andflesh, money and sex, would little think of returning. This hadresulted in countless tragedies in the homeland. Such a situationwas reflected in another folk song, very current in the Hakkaprefecture of Mei Hsien:We sail a boat to go abroad:Sailing ocean’s a hard life.Husband with bamboo, wife with oar,Carefully, let us keep alive!The times are changing year by year,Husband dearie, keep yourself!Don’t say money’s soon made abroad,Plum flowers are flowers, all the same.(i.e. your wife is here, why go away?)The smoke without feet goes up into heaven,The steamer without feet crosses the ocean,77
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Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting
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corrupt petty officer. But he had n
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eport, proving the method we’ve a
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who was with me showed His mighty w
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eader of the Indonesian edition of
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we left for another village. Sudden
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swamped with a hundred items of bus
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without anymore relying on the evan
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Those who first heard the Word and
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weak. Yet the conference required m
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