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| 8 | 24 | Two View more quotes about slaves">slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling. |
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| 8 | 21 | The barges in line before him, too, had slowed, then stopped, their oars half inboard, waiting. |
| 8 | 22 | It is sometimes difficult for even a small rence craft to make its way through the tangles of rushes and sedge in the delta. |
| 8 | 23 | A punt, from the flagship, moved ahead. |
| 8 | 24 | Two slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling. |
| 8 | 25 | Two other slaves stood forward with glaves, lighter poles, bladed, with which they cut a path for the following barges. |
| 8 | 26 | That path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars. |
| 8 | 27 | The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water. |