Each traverser carries two flat trays known as cargons. These have wheels set into their undersides, and two cargons — each roughly 16 ft. long and holding some three tons of miscellaneous freight — together fill the hold of a Bristol Freighter.

Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.

Underlying every Esperanto enthusiast is the Esperantist ideal that the world would be a better place if everyone could understand each other better.

[W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications.