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| 7 | 37 | The View more quotes about slaves">slaves who were loading the barges would then gather up each new slave, carrying him to the barges, adding him to the others. |
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| 7 | 34 | They were the last of the catch. |
| 7 | 35 | There was perhaps a hundred of them. |
| 7 | 36 | One by one they were being taken from the net, the net being tightened again by slaves, and stripped and bound, hand and foot. |
| 7 | 37 | The slaves who were loading the barges would then gather up each new slave, carrying him to the barges, adding him to the others. |
| 7 | 38 | About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies. |
| 7 | 39 | Two wild gants alighted on the island, away from the men and their prisoners, and began pecking about the ruins of one of the rence huts, probably after seeds or bits of rence cake. |
| 7 | 40 | A small domesticated tarsk, grunting and snuffling, pattered across rence matting that was the surface of the island. |