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with my reading. However I submitted with a good
grace and found considerable amusement in watching
people. In cock-fighting I got into the final,
but was ultimately defeated by a huge S. African
cricketer who rolled me into the scuppers. There have
been 3 or 4 concerts, dancing every night and our fancy
dress ball, all rather amusing to a humorist like
me. The passengers may be divided into 2 classes.
One - a very large one- consists of rich colonials and
English commercial people with their families. Most of
them are good-humoured vulgar people and I find the
colonials very interesting. They have all grievances
which they pour out to me. One is the S. African
agent of J & W Campbell of Glasgow and an elder in
the Presbyterian Kirk at Johannesburg - a very good
honest Scotsman, and a shrewd one. Another has just been
staying with Marshall at Rachan. A third looks like
a navvy and is really a millionnaire. Most of them gamble,