The jeeps that had been bringing up supplies could not get forward and there were not enough native porters to meet the demand.
The Allemand had shot three native porters, lining them up and covering their eyes with strips of white cloth.
Mallory was pulled down too, but seven native porters were killed.
The medal was issued in silver to officers and men of the British forces and in bronze to native porters.
At the last moment, a middle-aged American lady swarmed into the compartment, followed by native porters laden with her baggage.
Easy, we've got a string of native porters.
Keeping the tent between him and herself, she crossed between the small shelters of the native porters to the boma wall beyond.
Tom's feelings were mixed when he discovered that Creel and one of the native porters had already returned.
I felt like a defunct warthog being toted in some hunter's line of native porters.
They, along with six men from Company E of the 126th, and some forty native porters, begun the survey of the trail in October 1942.