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| 57 | 127 | Before the View more quotes about first">first Ahn was out many were sweating and moaning with pain, begging that they might be released, to be taught the more typical, softer labors of the female slave. |
| 57 | 128 | It was hard to blame them for the oar of a river galley is normally drawn by a strong man. |
| 57 | 129 | If the journey had not been downriver I do not think it would have been practical to put them at oars at all. |
| 57 | 130 | The fetch-and-carry girl, of course, scolded the talunas for their weakness. |
| 57 | 131 | The next day, however, it was she herself who sweated at an oar, crying out in pain under the whips of the vigilant askaris, while another took her place. |
| 57 | 132 | She had not realized that the fetch-and-carry girl would be changed daily. |
| 57 | 133 | In this way no taluna would have to spend more than forty consecutive days at an oar. |