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Updated: June 25, 2025
At this very moment he is considering whether he shall transport coolies from China to Australia, Natal, or the Feegee Islands, to raise his cotton and help put down Secession and export-duties, or whether he shall give a new stimulus to India cotton by railways and irrigation.
When a boat is securely drawn upon the strand, there is no waste of time in getting the cargo started for the government storehouse. Muscular porters, glistening in their perspiring nudeness, go in single file between boat and kottu like ants executing a transportation feat. In a very few minutes the oysters are being counted by nimble-handed coolies.
"Ugh!" she shuddered, turning another way, "I don't care for your cobras, Hope, and everybody knows that bungalows aren't to be found in city streets. But as for the coolies and palanquins, of course " "You have them both!" laughed the captain, pointing down the narrower street into which they had just entered.
Packed street cars, automobiles, carts piled high with incredible loads pulled by coolies, a girder being dragged by a scrawny horse led by a seemingly tireless, whip-equipped native, all apparently were about to collide with our rick-shaw party. We seemed to be always in the way and always on the wrong side of the street.
Then suddenly a distant murmur swelled through the strange silence. Daleham looked out over the barricade. "They're No. What is it? What are they doing?" All round the circle of besiegers there was an eerie hush. No voice was heard. All the Rajah, the flag-bearer, Brahmins, soldiers, coolies had turned their faces away from the bungalow and were staring into the distance.
The two tall poles, with the upturned baskets, the devil-catches, rose like flagstaffs from both sides of the door. A huge china griffon stood at the right of the gate. From beyond the wall came the sounds of early morning the click of wooden sandals on cobbled streets and the panting cries of the coolies bringing in fresh vegetables or carrying back to the denuded land the refuse of the city.
He was writing about the Coolie Labor Question and the Eastern Question. He has been in the South Seas, like you." "Yes; he has been in a lot of queerer places than the South Seas," answered the other, "and he ought to know something about Coolies. He has dealt in them, I fancy." "I daresay," Maitland replied rather wearily.
Charlesworth shook hands with both ladies and strode off in triumph to where Turner was awaiting him impatiently. "Now, dear, we'll go," said Ida. "I have a couple of dandies waiting for us." "Dandies?" echoed the girl in surprise. "What do you mean?" The older woman laughed. "Oh, not dandies like Captain Charlesworth. These are chairs in which coolies carry you. In Darjeeling you can't drive.
After a grilling march, we enjoyed the delights of a bathe under a waterfall of clear cold water, and got our breakfast by eleven o'clock. To-day, some of our brigade of coolies begin to complain of sickness, which sounds alarming, not only to themselves, but to us, for none others are now procurable.
But there was one thing that prevented it from bein' a very happy though prosperous place, an' that was the coolies who had been hired in Java, for the only men that could be got there at first were criminals who had served their time in the chain-gangs of Batavia.
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