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THE DOCK-LABOURERS

THE packet was propelled by three boatmen.
There was an indescribable peculiarity about
them which caused me to detest them. I
noticed that they
had large green
hands which they
held in the air,
varying the posi-
tion from time
to time. I had
never seen men so
wrapped up before ;
they were entirely
swathed in bass-
matting bound round with raffia-grass.
I noticed that each of them had a label
tied to him, and that the flock of sheep in the

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