Field notes, v1753
Page 122
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Jan. 17 out on the ground for 1/4 - 1/2 mile. Ran up one of clotheslines strung with Garmets, sheets and other articles of cloth were seen. The clothing fluttered in the morning breeze. Concrete troughs and sloping trays were the washing units. The clothes were dunked in the troughs and then wrung out and slapped, with a very- one over-the-head movement against the tray. The place is in an extremely poverty stricken part of town with hordes of ragged dirty people. When I tried to give a camel caravan driver 4 rupee, a small boy snatched the money and soon there were 20 children fighting for the coin.