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| 21 | 27 | Askaris View more quotes about used">used not oars but paddles, and used canoes. |
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| 21 | 24 | I could hear, slightly out of time, the softer entry into the water of a second set of oars. |
| 21 | 25 | "They could not be askaris," said Ayari. |
| 21 | 26 | "No," I said. |
| 21 | 27 | Askaris used not oars but paddles, and used canoes. |
| 21 | 28 | Moreover, when moving at night, each canoe's paddles kept the exact rhythm of that of the lead canoe. |
| 21 | 29 | This makes it difficult to count their number. |
| 21 | 30 | It is common, of course, to use a tandem order in night rowing, the first vessel's untroubled passage marking the safe channel, its impeded passage marking the location of an obstacle. |