There is the back door and there is the Ciliwung, the unnoticed river. And in this story, there is Meneer Barkey.

Tjalie Robinson, the Dutch writer famous for his sketches Piekarans can eenstraatslijper (Ponderings of a Street Loafer), created this character for his story Vivere Pericolosomente.

Meneer Barkey is aged 34, with white skin, blue eyes and blond hair like a full-blood Dutchman, even though he is actually of mixed blood, an Indo. He