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| 9 | 61 | In the View more quotes about first">first days in the delta over two hundred men had been lost, in one case an entire platoon. |
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| 9 | 58 | But the fellow, I think, uttering accessions, covered with sand, needed no further encouragement. |
| 9 | 59 | He swiftly, gratefully, took his place in one of the long lines. |
| 9 | 60 | The loss of men to quicksand was rare now, given the lines. |
| 9 | 61 | In the first days in the delta over two hundred men had been lost, in one case an entire platoon. |
| 9 | 62 | Several others, unaccounted for, may also have been victims of the treacherous sand. |
| 9 | 63 | "Move," called the fellow behind me. |
| 9 | 64 | "On my back," I said, "I can feel it! A leech! Take it off!" "You can be covered with them, spying sleen," snarled the man, "for all I care". |