The Legend of Golar's Might

The mines rumbled all day long. Sickness was a constant spectre. Polera, desentry, malaria, assoma and lung cancer raged through the coolie settlements. The horizon was marred by a huge contraption with rotating wheels on top. He would later learn that this was a great lift that conveyed men from the surface of the earth to his bowels. When dusk fell, workers would stumble out of thei mines and their work stations. Many would turn their faces towards the local liquor shops or gambling dens,. even though wives and children waited for them at home.