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A NATIVE alone may plumb the depths of the native mind with any accuracy. Sanders was remarkable because he was possessed of a peculiar quality -- the quality of comprehension.
He made few mistakes because he applied no rules. He knew, for instance, that native memory is short, yet he was prepared to hear a greybeard of forty contest his finding in some particular suit with a precedent created twenty years before and entirely obliterated from Sanders' memory.