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

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, Jochen and Mike.

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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