Indigene

While Manuel sat skinning his birds of an afternoon, generally surrounded by a little crowd of Malays and Sassaks (as the indigenes of Lombock are termed), he often held forth to them with the air of a teacher, and was listened to with profound attention.

The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.