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Updated: May 3, 2025
Shortly, we came to the outskirts of the excited crowd, and beyond them saw the red furnace glow. "Semeelay! Semeelay!" warned Mohammed authoritatively; and the bystanders, seeing a white face, gave me passage. All of picturesque Mombasa was afoot Arabs, Swahilis, Somalis, savages, Indians the whole lot.
By dint of constant daily exercise, hauling water up from a depth and carrying it various distances, these men have developed the most beautifully powerful figures. They proceed at a half trot, the slender poles, with forty pounds at either end, seeming fairly to cut into their naked shoulders, muttering a word of warning to the loiterers at every other breath semeelay! semeelay!
He was attending strictly to business, looking neither to right nor to left, pushing forward as steadily as he could, gasping mechanically his customary warning, "Semeelay! Semeelay!" Somehow, eventually, he and his comrades must have got somewhere; for after an interval he returned with empty buckets.
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