Book · 1986 · Biography & Autobiography
The White Rajahs of Sarawak
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His early biographers who were all propagandists of the British Empire, guys like Robert Payne, will write, quote, "It was remembered that he never told a lie and demonstrated at an early age a character of the utmost nobility.
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Robert Evans Nigel Barley notes, quote, he had found his niche, a big fish in a small pond operating on the margins of e… 4
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“His early biographers who were all propagandists of the British Empire, guys like Robert Payne, will write, quote, "It was remembered that he never told a lie and demonstrated at an early age a character of the utmost nobility."”
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“Uh he was stationed in India where Robert Payne writes, quote, James was in fact a bad soldier with a happy go-lucky attitude towards the army. His main task was drilling the native troops”
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“Nigel Barley notes, quote, he had found his niche, a big fish in a small pond operating on the margins of established order, and this was the kind of position to which he would gravitate all his life.”
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“In Payne's view, bemoowned the deterioration of the native character arising from their intercourse with the whites.”
