However, much damage was done by inappropriate spectacles sold by hawkers.
We also saw brown hawkers with their attractive coppery wings hunting along the taller vegetation of the river bank.
This proved one of the most momentous steps taken in the history of South Africa, for the Indian population rapidly increased, the " free " Indians becoming market gardeners, farmers, hawkers, traders, and in time serious competitors with the whites.
In the East End and other poor quarters a large trade in second-hand clothing, flowers and vegetables, and many other commodities is carried on in the streets on movable stalls by costermongers and hawkers.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces; and many thousands of these articles were furnished by him to the hawkers.