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Updated: May 27, 2025
Then ensued a few minutes of strenuous bargaining between passengers and boatmen, at the end of which time Dick and Grosvenor, having said goodbye to the captain and officers Dick also included the crew in his farewell found themselves being pulled across the few yards of water which intervened between ship and shore, and presently they stood upon the sun-blistered wharf fighting their way through an odoriferous crowd of shouting, laughing, gesticulating, and more than half-naked Kafir rickshaw-men who clamoured for the honour of dragging them the mile or so that separated the Point from Durban.
"I went out of the front door and there was Master Tanaka, telling the rickshaw-men the latest gossip about us. I said to him, 'Tanaka, are you married? 'Yes, Lordship, he answered, 'I am widower. 'Any children? I asked again. 'I have two progenies, he said; 'they are soldiers of His Majesty the Emperor. 'Why, how old are you? I asked. 'Forty-three years, he answered.
These were dressed like the rickshaw-men. They wore tight trousers, short jackets and straw sandals. They were sitting, wearied, on the sides of the barge, wiping black faces with black towels. Their hair was long, lank and matted. Their hands were bruised and shapeless with the rough toil. "Poor men," sighed Asako, "they've had hard work!"
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