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| 42 | 16 | View more quotes about thus">Thus neither Tula nor I could free the rope of the two trees to which it was tied. |
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| 42 | 13 | All that was done with Tula, Mila, and myself was a simple rope ankle-coffle. |
| 42 | 14 | A long rope had been looped and knotted about our left ankles, and then the rope was tied at each end to a tree. |
| 42 | 15 | As it was fastened, Tula, had she desired to do so, could not reach the tree to her left to undo the knot, as the rope, knotted about the tree to her right, would not permit her to do so; similarly, I could not, had I desired to do so, reach the knot to my right to undo it, as the far knot on the left would not permit me to do so. |
| 42 | 16 | Thus neither Tula nor I could free the rope of the two trees to which it was tied. |
| 42 | 17 | Mila, of course, was between us. |
| 42 | 18 | I supposed we might have tried to chew through the rope, which was not, as far as I knew, cored with wire, but this did not seem practical. |
| 42 | 19 | Two guards were posted, and moved, from time to time, about the camp. |