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A hundred thousand Surinamese had fled the small country just before independence in 1975 but Jan Branders would never have made it on his own.

Like all Surinamese he had been a Dutch national before independence and Rennie had heard that he was now part of the underworld that controlled the girls and drugs over the small bridge from the Damrak.

But as he turned right towards the museum the crowds thinned and the groups in the shop entrances were Surinamese and Javanese, and a few Chinese in the small shops that were still open.

All I know is one Arab and four, five Surinamese got a white man as prisoner.

It was one of the Surinamese, naked, peering across the saloon from the corridor that seemed to lead to the cabins.

Was he Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Nepalese, Surinamese, Dutch-Chinese?

The Surinamese brought it to the Netherlands in the late sixties and early seventies.

Now the Colombians themselves brought it, but the Colombian prostitutes were not a problem, either, and their pimps made even less trouble than the Surinamese pimps.

He laid down a completed application form of the type issued by the Surinamese Consulate and filled out by the applicant for a visa.

The Surinamese charge him with passport fraud and put him on the next plane back.

The Surinamese, here to visit relatives or buy produce to sell back in Parbo, must have wondered why, but patience has never been rationed in the Third World, nor information a glut.

His British accent might not have fooled Oxford or Cambridge, but among the Dutch-speaking Surinamese and, he presumed, the Spanish-speaking San Martinos, there would be no problem.

Every car park, every garage, every driveway, every track to be scoured for a Ford Compact of this Surinamese registration number.

There were Surinamese women pushing wide mops, and banks of unmanned check-in desks like stalls at some fair that would open soon.

He began to see everything in Amsterdam as if miniaturized: his own hotel on the Herengracht, the Anne Frank house, the impossibly good-looking Surinamese women.