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Updated: May 3, 2025
The coolie, drawn from his native village reluctant, like a periwinkle from its shell, is never a good starter, and when he finds himself at the end of a tow-rope or bowed beneath half a hundredweight of the sahib's trinkets, with a three-thousand-feet pass to attain in front of him, he is extremely apt to burst into tears idle tears or be overcome by a fit of that fell disease "the lurgies."
Lest my reader should not be acquainted with this illness, at least under that name, here is the diagnosis of the lurgies as given by a very ordinary seaman to the ship's doctor. "Well, sir, I eats well, and I sleeps well; but when I've got a job of work to do Lor' bless you, sir! I breaks out all over of a tremble!"
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