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IN AFRICA 
made. And I am taking it home with me, hoping 
that it may make music. Next year, owing to the 
demand I created for waterwheels, I suppose the 
Java in a State of High Cultivation 
Javanese will start making them for the tourist 
trade. 
Just as Russia is the land of “nitchevo,” Spain 
the land of “manana,” and China the land of 
“maskee,” so Java is the land of “never mind .’ 5 You 
will hear the expression dozens of times in the 
