the smell was suffocating ; that is , once one was able to get past the very sight of the rubbish , to say nothing of the various vermin scurrying through and around it , occasionally brushing past ones feet , if they werent otherwise making a cheeky attempt to crawl up ones pant leg ( or , in the case of drawans , up ones sarong , which despite its seeming lack of plausibility , occurred often enough to warrant the posting of signs around town in the drawan dialect , replete with graphic images , warning of the dangers of letting ones sarong hang too close to the ground ) .