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| 57 | 132 | She had not View more quotes about realized">realized that the fetch-and-carry girl would be changed daily. |
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| 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. |
| 57 | 134 | It had not taken the original fetch-and-carry girl more than an Ahn at the oar, incidentally, before she, too, had begged to be relieved of its pain, that she might be taught lighter duties, even those involving perfumes and silks, more fitting, more suitable, to the bodies and dispositions of female slaves. |
| 57 | 135 | The wharves were busy. |