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| 6 | 14 | View more quotes about later">Later, when finished with the deck stones, they would again rinse and, again on their hands and knees, with rags, dry the deck. |
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| 6 | 11 | They, too, could smell the spices, even this far from land. |
| 6 | 12 | In their right hands, grasped, were deck stones, soft, white stones, rounded, which are used to smooth and sand the boards of the deck. |
| 6 | 13 | Earlier they had scrubbed and rinsed and, with rags, on their hands and knees, dried the deck. |
| 6 | 14 | Later, when finished with the deck stones, they would again rinse and, again on their hands and knees, with rags, dry the deck. |
| 6 | 15 | Had sailors been doing these things they, of course, would have dried the deck by simply mopping it down. |
| 6 | 16 | This was not permitted to the girls, of course. |
| 6 | 17 | They were slaves. |