fleecings

Updated: June 4, 2025

We wished ourselves at the end of the journey; thought anything better than this kind of existence living entirely at the expense of others; even the fleecings in Usui felt less dispiriting; but it could not be helped, for it must always exist as long as these Turks are allowed to ride rough-shod over the people.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile