If they had been able to follow his advice, the new residents would have been without "help" to the end of their stay.

The end of their stay, he figured, would not be many weeks from its beginning if they were compelled to dwell there without the luxury of servants.

Bowles often related the story of Von Blitz's rage when he found that the recalcitrants had been persuaded to resume work by the American lawyer.
He lived, with his three wives, in the hills just above and south of the town itself.

The Englishmen who worked in the bank, and the three Boer foremen also, had houses up there where it was cooler, but Von Blitz was the only one who practised polygamy.

His wives were Persian women and handsome after the Persian fashion.
There were many Persian, Turkish and Arabian women on the island, wives of the more potential men.