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Samarinda is an important port in East Borneo. Although theChinese here barely touched ten thousand, its hinterland and riverbasin were abundant with produce. The next town is a petroleumproducing centre with a sizeable labour force. When we arrived inSamarinda we immediately rented a house and hoisted our“Gospel Hall” signboard facing the street. We stayed here on onehand to preach to the Church and on the other to learn Indonesian.I remember when Paul Lenn and I first went to market, we had inour shopping bag a Conversation Book which we consulted in ourbargaining. When one comes into a new country, one becomes alaughing-stock often through barriers of language and ideas. Forexample there are many words with a similar sound andappearance. If one is not keen of mind to differentiate, and if one’spronunciation is inaccurate or one’s memory weak, things canbecome quite laughable. The words below gave the learner someheadache in the beginning.Kepala is head, Kelapa is coconut.Lagi is again, Laki is male.Susu is milk, Susa is trouble.Gula is sugar, Gila is mad.Mandi is bath, Mati is death,Apart from these there are some common words of dailyusage which through carelessness may be made to mean the mostvulgar. The beginner must exercise care when he tries to speak.Moreover Indonesian grammar often runs counter to the Chinese.If with your Chinese grammatical patterns you try to speakIndonesian you would surely make yourself the butt of alllaughter. For example, if you use your Chinese grammar pattern tosay, “the cat catches the rat”, the Indonesian may turn out to be,“the rat catches the cat”!I remember some years ago we had a new worker fromShanghai joining us. He was the Rev. Moses Chow and hailedfrom Hsiao Hsing. Early every morning before he got up, he could84
hear some hawker in the silent streets calling, “Kuwe, Kuwe!”This sounds like “Devil” in Mandarin. At night from the darkstreets he could also hear another calling, “Sate, Sate!” (whichsounds like Satan in his dialect). He could not understand this.Later he realised that “Kuwe” means “cake” and “Sate” is “satay”(Malay barbequed mutton). But “Sate” is same as theShanghainese pronunciation of “Satan”.What happened here had its counterpart in Canton or HongKong. Some hawker was selling yam so he called, “Mai Kod”.And when another was selling salted pears he shouted, “Ham sarlay”. To the English ear these sounded like, “my God” and “I’msorry”. The South Seas abounds with a species of giant turtles.These would lay their many eggs on the sandy seashore. Both thenatives and Chinese love to eat them, especially the Chinese whoregard them as a sort of tonic. So we bought them to eat too. Nowwhen we boiled the eggs and cracked the shell we found the eggwhite a glutinous paste. Thinking it was still uncooked we boiledagain but the egg white remained the same glutinous substance.We boiled it for some hours and still it refused to congeal. Wethought this must be some monstrous being and poured it into thedrain. Later we learnt that such was the substance of turtle eggs.Here’s another ludicrous incident. We were true busybodies.When we first arrived in the South Seas we saw red spittingseverywhere on the road. We became worried. We began tocogitate in our minds: “There are so many T.B. patients in theSouth Seas. This scares us! This must be due to the tropicalclimate. Why doesn’t the Government prohibit such spitting? Whyis the Government so careless about health? No wonder T.B.patients are on the increase!” Being over concerned about thismatter we soon learned the mystery. This hideous lot of spitting isactually from the chewing of betel nuts and leaves, a habit ofSouth Seas dwellers. It is a common thing which bothers nobody.But we new-comers were frightened in our little knowledge.85
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