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Updated: May 2, 2025
It is vastly droll to hear that some of these gentlemen import species at a great expense which an intelligent coolie could gather for them in any quantity within a few furlongs of their go-down! But for the most part they demand foreigners. The plants thus distributed will be grown in the open air; naturally they will seed; at least, we may hope so.
"Run, quick," panted Wutzler, pushing him aside. "To the left, into the go-down. Here they are! To your left!" And with the words, he bounded off to the right, firing his gun to confuse the chase. Rudolph obeyed, and, running at top speed, dimly understood that he had doubled round a squad of grunting runners, whose bare feet pattered close by him in the smoke.
Before sunrise next morning the expedition was marshalled in the courtyard for the start. A great fire burned in the space just before the house, and by its light the stores and tents were taken from the go-down.
He opened the door of a go-down, and Adams in the dim light, saw bale upon bale of stuff; gum copal it proved to be, for Yandjali tapped a huge district where this stuff is found, and which lies forty miles to the south. There was also cassava in large quantities, and the place had a heady smell, as if fermentation were going on amidst the bales.
A top of two mountain more, and two go-down, and then there; yes," said the dragoman, among whose various accomplishments that of speaking English could hardly be reckoned as the most prominent. At last the two mountains more and the two go-downs were performed, and George was informed that the wall he saw rising sharp from the rocky ground was Jerusalem.
He seemed absorbed in a book on surgery that he had borrowed from a chance-met acquaintance in the go-down where he drew the medical supplies. Ismail sat on the one trunk that had been fetched from the other station and nursed the new hand-bag on his knees, picking everlastingly at the lock and wondering audibly what the bag contained to an accompaniment of low-growled sympathy.
From some spare canvas and bamboos in the go-down he made a litter strong enough to carry Berselius he had to do nearly all the work himself, for the soldiers were utterly useless as workmen.
This was the door into the library which had been placed in a quiet and out-of-the-way corner overlooking the garden. This library was decidedly the most attractive and home-like room in the villa. There was a large open fireplace at one end where a pile of blazing logs now crackled cheerfully. It would have taken an immense "go-down" to accommodate all the books which lined the walls. But Mr.
Nesbit's voice clipped out some pert objection. "Potted the beggar, any'ow see for yourself go-down 's afire." "Saves us the trouble of burning it." The other voice moved away, with a parting rebuke. "No more of that, sniping and squandering. Wait till they rush you." Rudolph lifted his head from the dust. "Maurice!" he called feebly. "Maurice, let me in!"
Pitts was at work in the galley; and as soon as the launch was made fast off the "go-down," or business building of the town, dinner was served to the seamen, and later to the denizens of the cabin. The afternoon was spent in examining the place, and in obtaining such supplies as were needed; for the boat was to sail on her voyage up the river early the next morning.
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