India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . lue, the colours shining throughthe coal dust which darkened their naturallyswarthy visages and forms. As these crowdedboats approached with their weird passengers, onehad an irresistible suggestion of Charon ferryinglost souls across the Styx—there was generallyonly one pair of oars, as the distance to the steamerfrom the wharf was very short. Well, these wereour coal-slaves, upon whose cheap labour the speedof our steamers depends quite as much as on theirown engines, one felt. From the boats theyscramble
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . lue, the colours shining throughthe coal dust which darkened their naturallyswarthy visages and forms. As these crowdedboats approached with their weird passengers, onehad an irresistible suggestion of Charon ferryinglost souls across the Styx—there was generallyonly one pair of oars, as the distance to the steamerfrom the wharf was very short. Well, these wereour coal-slaves, upon whose cheap labour the speedof our steamers depends quite as much as on theirown engines, one felt. From the boats theyscrambled into the lighters—some shovelled up thecoal into hand baskets of matting which otherslifted on to their shoulders and carried across anarrow plank into the ship, forming a weird line of 6 INDIA IMPRESSIONS black figures silhouetted against the shining coolies worked hard and fast in a black mistof coal dust and kept up a continual hubbub ofcries in Arabic and other strange tongues whichadded to the weirdness of the scene. Port Said looked very new and flimsy, and was. ^f^ Ghf?^5
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