 | Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - Authors - 1927 - 384 pages
...employ white men in the shipping part of his business, and many of those he so em1Page« 4-5. ployed had never set eyes on him from the first to the last...had done some favour, in the way of food and money. . . . Excellent (and picturesque) Arab owner, about whom one needed not to trouble one's head. . .... | |
 | Norman Sherry - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 376 pages
...World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great occult power amongst his own people ... He had to employ white men in the shipping part of...said that 'the charitable man is the friend of Allah ' ? (p. 3). The Singapore and Straits Directory for 1883 records Syed Mohsin Bin Salleh Al Jooffree... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2010 - 146 pages
...first to the last day I myself saw him but once, quite accidentally on a wharf an old. dark liltle man blind in one eye. in a snowy robe and yellow slippers....pilgrims to whom he had done some favour, in the way tif food and money. His alms-giving, I have heard, was mosl extensive. covering almost the whole Archipelago.... | |
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World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great occult power amongst his own people. It was all one to us who owned the ship. He had to employ white men in the shipping part of his business, and many of those he so employed had never set... 