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| 23 | 243 | There was an occasional squeak of the View more quotes about metal">metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water. |
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| 23 | 240 | We then began, smoothly and firmly, exerting heavy, even pressures, to draw the chain back and forth under the log. |
| 23 | 241 | In moments, using this crude saw, or cutting tool, we had cut through the bark of the log and had begun, rhythmically, to gash and splinter the harder wood beneath. |
| 23 | 242 | The spacing and twisting of the links, in the motion of the metal, served well in lieu of teeth. |
| 23 | 243 | There was an occasional squeak of the metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water. |
| 23 | 244 | It was a mistake on the part of the askaris to have left us in neck chains in a cage mounted on a log platform. |
| 23 | 245 | We ceased work, once, when a canoe of askaris, on watch, paddled by. |
| 23 | 246 | My hands began to bleed on the chain. |