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They lived in the Frankish quarter and dressed in ultra-European style. They made rather a depressing spectacle on Saturdays, when, garbed in black broadcloth, with bowler hats, they drifted through the sunlit streets on their Sabbath constitutional from one town gate to the next and back.
The parade over a hoarse order rang out. A drum and bugle band belonging to another regiment struck up a lively air and the black and khaki lines swung about into "column of route." The "Waffs" were off to the conquest of the last of Germany's ultra-European colonies. It was a march of about five miles to the beach along a straight road bordered with palm trees.
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