They were stevedores and doing full stevedores work.

They were very erect when unladden--from carrying heavy loads on their heads--just like the Indian women.

It gives them a proud fine carriage.
Sometimes one saw a woman carrying on her head a laden and top-heavy basket the shape of an inverted pyramid-its top the size of a soup-plate, its base the diameter of a teacup.

It required nice balancing--and got it.
No bright colors; yet there were a good many Hindoos.
The Second Class Passenger came over as usual at "lights out" (11) and we lounged along the spacious vague solitudes of the deck and smoked the peaceful pipe and talked.

He told me an incident in Mr.Barnum's life which was evidently characteristic of that great showman in several ways: This was Barnum's purchase of Shakespeare's birthplace, a quarter of a century ago.