Item 01: John Duncan McRae diary, 5 October-11 December 1917 - Page 100

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doing any menial job. The Zulus also pull the Rickshaws of which there are thousands in the city. Many of the boys had rides in these, and they take the place of cabs for the local residents.
The Zulus also have milk carts & luggage vans which they pull themselves. These people also hold positions as servants to the whites and are generally very nicely dressed in white trousers & coat & no boots, but their legs are so clean & shiny that these can well be dispersed with.
The native police wear a fine dark uniform with trousers to the knees & have a long stick as weapon. While we were on picquet duty at the police station

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