Note 15 — THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN (continued 2)
Isabel Florence Hapgood translation · Edition 2
The burlakí on the Volga used to tow the barges from Ástrakhan to Nízhni Nóvgorod Fair, against the current. The stevedores also are called burlakí, and, as they lade the barges, their chantey runs (more literally than I have translated it above): "Yet another little time, yet again,..." and so forth.—Translator.