deck-swabs

Updated: June 4, 2025

Then we rode along the right bank of the river, but kept moving away from the stream till in the distance across the plain at the foot of the hills, we saw the Shan town of Santa, the end of our day's stage. Native women, returning from the town, were wending their way across the plain lank overgrown girls with long thin legs and overhanging mops of hair like deck-swabs.

George Ernest Morrison - An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma