The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.

To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.

it was in the garage that Alec worked, […] doing mysterious greasy things. Grease blackened his hairy legs; grease had turned his white canvas shoes black; grease blackened his hands even beyond the wrist; grease made his short working trousers black and stiff. Yet he had the gift, which Mr Biswas admired, of being able to hold a cigarette between greasy fingers and greasy lips without staining it.

the contraction of malaria