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To an inlander there is something magical about discovering seafaring implements and deep-sea fishing-gear of any kind about a house.

I am no inlander," he said, "I am of the sea-coast of Tarragona.

He looked at the inlander coldly, but The Barbarian did not seem to notice.

Koningsberger, who at the time was director of the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, told me that an "inlander" once applied to him for a position.

But, even as many sailors cannot swim a stroke, so many an inlander, born and brought up within sight of fresh water, has never taken the trouble to grasp the simplest rudiments of natation.