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| 57 | 118 | The View more quotes about right">right ankle shackle was then passed under the long chain and snapped shut about her right ankle. |
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| 57 | 115 | There were enough girls, in this arrangement, for five oars to a side with one girl left over, who could carry food and water to her laboring sisters. |
| 57 | 116 | A long chain was run lengthwise in the galley and fastened to rings at both stem and stern. |
| 57 | 117 | The left ankle of the extra girl, the fetch-and-carry girl, who was already in wrist rings, joined by a foot of chain, was then locked in one of two ankle shackles, joined by about eighteen inches of chain. |
| 57 | 118 | The right ankle shackle was then passed under the long chain and snapped shut about her right ankle. |
| 57 | 119 | She was thus, by her lovely legs and body, and shackled ankles, literally fastened about the long chain, which served then as a slave's run-chain, permitting her movement, but strictly, by intent, controlling its scope. |
| 57 | 120 | She might move back and forth, lengthwise in the galley, and to the benches, performing her labors, but could not leave the vessel or, indeed, even touch its bulwarks. |
| 57 | 121 | Too, it did not permit her to move as far as its rudder. |