TCD MS 10515 folio 29v
[March 29th 1916]poleing the bellums or labouring at the wharfs, recall the days when slave dhows carried their human freight from the East African shores. Asiatics of every race, and countenance of every type are gathered together in this squalid town and Tramp side by side through the mud of its dark, filthy, insanitary streets. And directing them, governing them, are British soldiers and British sailors, working with dignity, yet with determination to enforce order, and each filled with that self-assurance which our inherited instinct of governing has supplied, and with that sense of power that has been given us by invasion and conquest.