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town lies at the base of some hills on a narrow strip of beach dissected by canals of dirty water. The water of the harbour is also dirty [[strike]] and [[/strike]] due to its shallowness. We took on coal here, the barges coming off to meet us loaded with men + women coal heavers. These built ladders up the side of the vessel from the coal barges + passed up the coal in baskets from one person to another. At 6 P.M. we went ashore + did some shopping. The streets are very narrow only a few feet wide + then are no carriages or autos or horse drawn carts here. The place is dead now -the hotels empty owing to the absence of [[ ??]] . Now it is only in