When the struggle and hot argument that followed that had died down, Indians began coming, and other Greeks, until most of the inhabitants of the eastern side of town were either squatting or standing or pacing to and fro outside the camping-ground.
At last rumor of what was happening reached the D.O.A.G .-- the store at the corner of the drill-ground, where it seemed the non-commissioned officers took their pleasure of an evening.

Pleasure, except as laid down in regulations, is not permitted in German colonies to any except white folk.

No less than eight German sergeants and a sergeant-major, all the worse for liquor, turned out as if to a fire and came down street at a double.
They had kibokos in their hands.

The first we heard of their approach was the crack-crack-crack of the black whips falling on naked or thin-cotton-clad backs and shoulders.

There was no yelling (it was not allowed after dark on German soil, at least by natives) but a sudden pattering in the dust as a thousand feet hurried away.