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| 16 | 84 | The View more quotes about intent">intent of the engineers of Bila Huruma was to set in place two parallel walls, low walls, some five or six feet high, placed about two hundred yards apart. |
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| 16 | 81 | Most of the workers on the canal were not chained. |
| 16 | 82 | Most were impressed free men. |
| 16 | 83 | Waters from the overflow of Lake Ngao entered the great marsh between Ngao and Ushindi, and, thence, made their ways to Ushindi, which, by means of the Kamba and Nyoka, drained to gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
| 16 | 84 | The intent of the engineers of Bila Huruma was to set in place two parallel walls, low walls, some five or six feet high, placed about two hundred yards apart. |
| 16 | 85 | The area between these walls, the marsh waters diverted on either side, was then to be drained and readied for the digging of the main channel. |
| 16 | 86 | In this work draft tharlarion and great scoops, brought from the north, as well as gigantic work crews, would be used. |
| 16 | 87 | In the event that the central channel, when completed, would not prove sufficient to handle the overflow of Ngao, as seemed likely, conducting it geometrically to Ushindi, side channels were contemplated. |