I, too, went down to Tanjung Pinang from Singapore and had a similar experience. Very strange indeed. I felt like the only foreigner in the whole place and wondered what sustained the city. It was only later that I came to realise it was where many asylum seekers are detained. Did you see any evidence of that, or do you think they hide them out the back somewhere?
Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.
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