Chapter 14: 146-157
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blessing each with a Pistole... "spend it wisely. Prudently invested, it could provide you a tidy Fund"
Reference to the Parable of the Gold Coins found in Matthew 25:14-30.
"Our idea, actually... is for one of us to run away and pretend to lead a Wastrel's Life, whilst the other applies himself diligently to the Law,-"
Reference to the Parable of the Prodigal Son found in Luke 15:11-32.
Frikkadel
A traditional Afrikaner dish comprising usually baked, but sometimes deep-fried, meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar and spices.
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Soupkie
A soupkie is a glass for drinking gin.
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...the cell at Fort William, Calcutta
Quoted from Wikipedia, The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of Fort William on June 20, 1756. John Zephaniah Holwell claimed that following the fall of the Fort, British and Anglo-Indian soldiers and civilians were held overnight in conditions so cramped that a large proportion of those held died from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing. He claimed that 123 prisoners died out of 146 prisoners held.
