Meanwhile, our basic Kapitanleutnant has got to be asking himself: what the hell are the chances that a tramp Trinidadian steamer is going to just happen upon us and our milchcow, out in the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean? You could probably work it out, given the right data: Nn = number of Negroes per square kilometer Nm = number of milchcows AA = Area of the Atlantic Ocean … and so on. But wait a sec, neither Negroes nor milchcows are randomly distributed, so the calculation becomes immensely more complicated. Far too complicated for a Kapitanleutnant to mess around with, especially when
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