Re: Monday, 16 March 1925
In reply to Count Sigismund Bathony (msg # 374):
"You gots a mine in China, den dere's plenty o' da buggers dere, yah? Filipinos are good crew, too, but of course Norwegians be de best. Englishers are not bad, now you take dem Dutchies...."
He went on in this vein for quite some time, critiquing retty much every seafaring race and people on the face of the Earth. It was clear mining in China was of no interest to him, whereas the sea and his ship was his life.
He finished his cigar, downed the rest of his drink and checked a watch on a chain. "Well, I should be going. Later den I t'ought, ya?"