In the absence of enforcement, many liurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearby liurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.

Alas, after comparing the current list with the list for my college class of 2005, I seem to be approaching antique-hood—…

By the bill of lading the maſter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accuſtomed.

But here in the everblack, where natural laws were the only ones that mattered, he belonged to the cosmos — which could not be bought off or influenced, and which would take him back into itself in OH, MIRANDA!