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| 7 | 175 | We were View more quotes about taken">taken from the wagon and, chained outside, kneeling, were fed. |
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| 7 | 172 | Moments after lying down on the canvas, spread over the polished floor boards of the wagon, in spite of the movement and the bumping and jostling, I fell asleep. |
| 7 | 173 | To be relieved of the agony of the harness and the strain of drawing the wagon was simply in itself an exquisite delight. |
| 7 | 174 | When I awoke, many hours later, I was stiff and sore in every muscle of my body. |
| 7 | 175 | We were taken from the wagon and, chained outside, kneeling, were fed. |
| 7 | 176 | In the two days since I had been captured, prior to our encountering the caravan, we had had only berries and water, and bits of small game, cooked by the guards and thrown to us in scraps. |
| 7 | 177 | Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat. |
| 7 | 178 | I was famished and, burning my fingers, I clutched at it, and, half-choking, thrust it half into my mouth, tearing at it with my teeth and hands, the juices running at the sides of my mouth. |