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| 16 | 222 | View more quotes about behind">Behind the dhow, some wading and others in canoes, came more than a thousand askaris. |
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| 16 | 219 | On the foredeck of the dhow there was mounted a log drum. |
| 16 | 220 | On this, methodically, an askari drummer, with two long sticks, was beating out, again and again, the message of victory. |
| 16 | 221 | Many askaris, too, rode the dhow, mostly officers, judging from the arrangements of their gold and feathers, for it is by these things, serving as insignia, that their rankings to those who could read them, as I could not, were made clear. |
| 16 | 222 | Behind the dhow, some wading and others in canoes, came more than a thousand askaris. |
| 16 | 223 | In place of the mast on the dhow, mounted in the mast socket, was a "T" frame with a small crossbar mounted on the vertical beam. |
| 16 | 224 | On this "T" frame a man was chained. |
| 16 | 225 | His arms were placed over and behind the horizontal bar of the frame, his hands chained together, the chain running before his body, holding him to the frame. |