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| 7 | 100 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, only this year Bila Huruma has demanded quotas of men from Schendi herself". |
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| 7 | 97 | "Most who work on the canal are not slaves," said Uchafu. |
| 7 | 98 | "Many are debtors or criminals. |
| 7 | 99 | Many are simply common men, impressed into service, victims of work levies imposed on the villages. |
| 7 | 100 | Indeed, only this year Bila Huruma has demanded quotas of men from Schendi herself". |
| 7 | 101 | "These have, of course, been refused," I said. |
| 7 | 102 | "We have strengthened our defenses," said Uchafu, "reinforcing the palisaded walls which shield Schendi from the interior, but we must not delude ourselves. |
| 7 | 103 | Those walls were built to keep back animals and bands of brigands, not an army of thousands of men. |