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  • Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.
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    Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.

    | Date: 1859 | Reference: 573483i
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