Merapi

from ARCHIPELAGO: We live on islands that move / with mountains' trembles / smoking since they rose from the sea / from which we crawled to them.
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Setia

from SETIA: The old man he say: / "So I take her home. We feed her /
as we feed my granddaughter /
who has same age. /
She eat not food of crocodile, /
only food of my granddaughter." /
The old man laughed, /
said to me in English, /
"She is person. They are as sisters now yes."
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Ferdy

from SETIA: "That is my opinion, / in Indonesia we say, / You have / yours." / And Ferdy bore me deeper down the Mahakam, / into the Borneo jungle.
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Longhouse

from STRATEGY FOR VICTORY: We stopped for a night in the longhouse / where the Dayaks live in congress / each family extended among itself
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Son of Borneo

from SON OF BORNEO: That a man turns /
into bread /
wonders us not. /
I saw my father wriggle /
by the Mahakam, /
strike the intruder /
and eat him.
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