GR translation: he had written it down for her, as sailors do

[Mike Weaver]

I'd say
Hustling - doing what's necessary to get by - not necessarily 
prostitution - might be doing small jobs, begging, pilfering, setting up 
deals...

'As sailors do' is straight - telling their name to their 'wife' of the 
port.#

cheers
Mike

On 11-Jun-17 3:24 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> V351.33-352.7, P357.1-16   The girl may have stood on some promontory
> watching the gray ironclads dissolve one by one in the South Atlantic
> mist, but even if you’d like a few bars of Madame Butterfly about
> here, she was more probably out hustling, or asleep. She was not going
> to have an easy time. Tchitcherine had left her with a child, born a
> few months after the gunner went down in sight of the steep cliffs and
> green forests of Tsushima, early in the evening of 27 May.
>         The Germans recorded the birth and the father’s name (he had
> written it down for her, as sailors do—he had given her his name) in
> their central files at Windhoek. A travel pass was issued for mother
> and child to return to her tribal village, shortly after. A census by
> the colonial government to see how many natives they’d killed, taken
> just after Enzian was returned by Bushmen to the same village, lists
> the mother as deceased, but her name is in the records. A visa dated
> December 1926 for Enzian to enter Germany, and later an application
> for German citizenship, are both on file in Berlin.
>
> Here the aside "as sailors do" is not serious, is it?
>
> Also, what does "hustling" refer to here, most likely?
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