The audience travelled by ferry between various wharves where most of the performances took place.
The whole event was well organized, with transportation arrangements for visitors and students welcoming worshipers at wharves and stations.
Ongoing development has swept away the wharves and the merchant houses of the past.
This must be borne in mind in the selection and clearing of any parts in a tsetse area, such as wharves, ferries, etc., where there necessarily is considerable movement.
Commerce was thus carried out under a convenient fiction which brought an ever-busier traffic to the wharves of the city.
One morning the port was attacked, the wharves were wrecked, a schooner and a dredger were sunk and 120 yards of warehouses were destroyed.
It is not known how many of the 90 or so wharves within the city boundary were overtopped; but overtopping was extensive.
They embrace bricks, brickworks, works for making tiles and earthenware pipes, plant for distributing water, wharves of various sorts, including private harbours and staithes.
