In practice the majority of the women who came on board were prostitutes and to some of the more puritanical seamen and officers the scenes below deck, where there was no privacy, were shocking and disgusting.
Okuyinyani kukuba inkoliso yamabhinqa ababekhwela kwinqanawa babengamahenyukazi kumadoda aselwandle nkqu nakubaphathi-majoni oku kusenzeka kwidekhi engaphatsi apho kwangekho nto ifihlakeleyo, kwaye kwakusothusa kwaye kusonyanyisa.