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of beer which looked like horse.…..was put alongside the bars and we were even allowed to leave the cell to wash ourselves. We got nothing to eat.
In the afternoon they wanted to give us rice and curry, but we could simply not touch it for it was not a European but a Kanaka food. By 10 pm we had nothing to eat yet. In the afternoon I got a cup of tea and a slice of bread of Mayer who had got the gaol keepers wife to buy it for him. I then also had the opportunity to read a swiss paper which an English officer had brought us from Penang. My eyes were filled with tears when I read it. It was the great conception of the events that were taking place in Germany, and which were here described in touching pictures, that put me
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