hamal

• “The husband is in Iran looking for some kind of work, probably a hamal.”

  Afghan Connections published by Friends of Afghanistan

• “It is while looking at what seems both externally and internally complete and perfect happiness that the thought occurs — how must these people sigh, when driven across the dreary wilderness that intervenes between the lake country and the sea-coast, for such homes as these! — those unfortunates who, bought by the Arabs for a couple of doti, are taken away to Zanzibar to pick cloves, or do hamal work!”

  How I Found Livingstone

• “Chamu drove the hamal away in front of him, and cuffed him the minute they were out of sight.”

  Guns of the Gods

• “Now it was my painful duty to go every morning up to his office-room and see that peon had put fresh ink and everything ready and that the _hamal_ had dusted properly.”

  Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

• “Here, one of the gang (later identified as the man who had been known as John Robin Ross-Ellison, and who insisted that he was a Baluchi) declared that he had just murdered Mrs. Dearman in her drawing-room and made a full statement -- a statement found to be only too true, its details corroborated by a trembling _hamal_ who had peeped and listened, as all Indian servants peep and listen.”

  Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

• “Late that evening Dick Blaine, returning from a desultory dinner at the club across the river, very nearly fell into the trap-door, for the hamal had run away too, thinking he would surely be accused of all the mischief, and no lamps were lit.”

  Guns of the Gods

• “He went and fetched the hamal, who slunk through his task with the air of a condemned felon.”

  Guns of the Gods

• “Scarcely had we returned, indeed, before another patient hamal knocked, lugging the hapless bird.”

  Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

• “A peacock reposing majestically in the arms of a patient hamal appeared at the front door, a souvenir for "his excellency.”

  Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

• “He has to control a sneaking mussaul, an obstinate hamal, a quarrelsome, or perhaps a drunken cook, a wicked dog-boy, a proud coachman, and a few turbulent ghorawallas, while he must conciliate, or outwit, the opposition headed by the ayah.”

  Behind the Bungalow

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