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By and by, my attention became directed, by an occasional shout of merriment, to a group of Seedies clustered round a fire near me. Negroes in this country are much the same as in other parts of the World a happy, easily-contented race, forgetful of the past, and careless of the future.
The remaining portion of the men were even finer specimens of humanity than the Europeans. With the exception of two tall, bony Scindians, they were all Seedies, or negroes, and there was not one among them that might not have served as a model for a Hercules.
Slowton, bein' obligin' though ignorant, 'as got 'im in to see yer Uncle, and there they both is, in the best parlour, with special wine an' seedies on the table." "Oh, it'll be all right!" said Robin, cheerfully, "Uncle Hugo is getting old, of course, and he's a bit fanciful." Priscilla sniffed the air. "Mebbe and mebbe not! What are you two waitin' for now?"
At Aden, the supply of coals for the steam-ships has introduced a new trade; gangs of brawny Seedies, negroes from the Zanzibar coast, but fortunately enfranchised, make a livelihood by transferring the coal from the depots on shore to the steamers.
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