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Sailortown,
Titel:
Sailortown
Naam uitgever:
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. - E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
Jaar van uitgave:
1997
Omschrijving:
Liedtekst en Liedtekst verklaring
Aantal pagina's:
360
Taal:
Engels
Plaats van uitgave:
London & Newe York
Auteur:
Stan Hugill
THE PACIFIC, AUSTRALIA, ASIA, AND AFRICA
or gamble all night. Another waterfront dive was the China Dog, kept by a half-caste Malay, and close to it was a notorious den known as the Back of Beyond. Crimps, of course, soon found their way to the Japanese coast. In Yokohama were several Yankees and Britishers, the names of two having survived the years—Tommy Gore and the 'Bully'. They re- sided in Kanagawa, the port of Yokohama which was its first deep- water waterfront. There were crimps in Kobe, too, although ac- cording to Crowe, sailors from Japanese clinks were usually shipped aboard windbags having depleted crews. On the China coast, even up to the present day, it is quite common
for sailors and mates when down the hatches, and so on, to boot slack Chinese coolies around with impunity, and in the days of the tea clippers the ships' boys would be sent down the holds with thin canes in their hands with which to whip the Celestials working cargo to further industry. But when this was attempted on the proud Japanese things took a different turn. Lubbock records an incident which occurred aboard the tea clip-
per Norman Court while rice was being loaded in Hyögö. The mate lost his temper because the Japanese coolies were disobeying the Chinese stevedore, and with a savage kick booted the nearest coolie. In a flash all the coolies were on him, savaging him with their cargo- hooks. The carpenter, who was with him, managed to drag him up on deck and thus saved his life, but only just in time. The Japanese were always willing, unlike most Oriental coolies, to engage in a scuffle. In his China Clippers Lubbock relates the story of the 'Cutting Out
of the Ballast Lighters' at Yokohama in 1867. Apparently a dozen clippers were awaiting ballast here, all anxious to get to Foochow to load the new tea crop. This shingle ballast was brought across the Gulf of Edo in lighters. The American shore-agents handling the dis- tribution of the ballast passed the word around that the seamen who could waylay and board the lighters as they came across the Gulf could tow them alongside their own ships. At once many gigs from different vessels set off with strong crews, all armed with cutlasses, with spare prize-masters to take over captured ballast-lighters. As the ballast fleet was sighted, each gig darted for a lighter. Some were successfully boarded, others, thanks to the Japanese putting up a good fight, escaped, the Japs taking with them the prize-masters who were usually first aboard the lighter. The latter were then dumped ashore by the victorious Japs. Some prize-masters fell short as they leapt from the gigs to the lighters, getting a good ducking instead of a prize. In fact, both the seamen and Japanese enjoyed the semi- serious scuffle! In the nineties earth ballast was loaded aboard foreign sailing
ships by the native women, who carried it aboard in baskets each 308
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