beggar-pilgrims

Updated: May 10, 2025

We were a fortnight on the sea, wandering irrelevantly from port to port of the Levant, discharging a cargo of sugar; and all the while the poor beggar-pilgrims lived on the crusts of which they had sackfuls collected in Russia, crusts of black bread all gone green with mould.

Stephen Graham - A Tramp's Sketches