Paraphrase: 1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2) 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (para 3) 3. They rise out Of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard (para 3) 4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (para 9) 5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews (para 10) 6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury (para 10) 7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para 16) 8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings. (para 16) 9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. (para 17) 10. for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil (para 17) 11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. (para 19) 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para 21) 13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms (para 23) 14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (para 25) 15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. (para 26)