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The division of labour means labelling and stamping men for life some to splice ropes in factories, some to be foremen in a business, others to shove huge coal-baskets in a particular part of a mine; but none of them to have any idea of machinery as a whole, nor of business, nor of mines.
So ended our first trip in the New World; and we got back to the ship, but not to sleep. Already a coal-barge lay on either side of her, and over the coals we scrambled, through a scene which we would fain forget. Black women on one side were doing men's work, with heavy coal-baskets on their heads, amid screaming, chattering, and language of which, happily, we understood little or nothing.
Shan't get her paint clean under a week!" the first mate grumbled to his companion, the second mate a dark-haired, dreamy-eyed, West-country lad, but just out of his teens. The two officers, in dripping oilskins, stood at the gangway checking the tally of coal-baskets as they came on board.
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