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Excerpt from To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative
The sad grey life of England, the re¿ection of her climate, has ever welcomed a novelty, a fresh excite ment. Society has in turn lionised the marmiton, or assistant-cook, self-styled an 'emir of the Lebanon the Indian 'rajah,' at home a munshi, or language master and the African princess,' a slave-girl picked up in the bush. It is the same hunger for sensation which makes the mob stare at the Giant and the Savage, the Fat Lady, the Living Skeleton, and the Spotted Boy.
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