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Updated: April 30, 2025
We had arrived at the Amagertorv the market-place and I recollect getting a sudden impression of the quaint stalls and the picturesque Amager-women one with a preternaturally hideous face and the frozen canal in the middle, with the ice-bound fruit-boats from the islands, and the red sails of the Norwegian boats, and the Egyptian architecture of Thorwaldsen's Museum in the background, making up my mind to paint it all, in the brief instant before I added in my most convincing tones, 'The Kronprinds will be there.
Below us in the bay we could see the fins of several sharks, ploughing the waves in search of prey; while the constant sailing to and fro of Cuba fruit-boats, laden with bananas, pawpaws, pine-apples, and every luxury that and contiguous islands afford, enlivened the scene, which altogether was one of extraordinary beauty.
A long pull in a rickety sampan across the harbour of Sourabaya involves numerous collisions with fruit-boats, canoes, and rafts, before reaching the steamer in the offing.
He rushed again to the deck and sought Captain Flanagan, who was enjoying a pipe forward. "Captain, where is Mr. Breitmann?" "Breitmann? Oh, he went ashore in one of the fruit-boats. Missed th' motor." "Did he take any luggage?" "Baggage?" corrected Captain Flanagan. "Nothin' but his hat, sir. Anythin' wrong?" "Oh, no! We missed him at breakfast."
We knew we were part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and that was all. One day we put in at Malta. Here the fruit-boats, all painted green and red and white and blue, came rowing out to meet us. The Maltese who manned them stood upto row their oars-and rowed the right way forwards, instead of facing the wrong way, as we do in England.
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