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| 16 | 218 | The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their View more quotes about golden">golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears. |
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| 16 | 215 | They wore slave collars. |
| 16 | 216 | They were chained together, in groups of eight or ten, by the neck. |
| 16 | 217 | Askaris, some wading, some in canoes, flanked them. |
| 16 | 218 | The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears. |
| 16 | 219 | On the foredeck of the dhow there was mounted a log drum. |
| 16 | 220 | On this, methodically, an askari drummer, with two long sticks, was beating out, again and again, the message of victory. |
| 16 | 221 | Many askaris, too, rode the dhow, mostly officers, judging from the arrangements of their gold and feathers, for it is by these things, serving as insignia, that their rankings to those who could read them, as I could not, were made clear. |