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| 17 | 75 | As the View more quotes about slave">slave works the tunnel, he crawls on his hands and knees, which bleed at first but gradually develop calluses of thick, scabrous tissue. |
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| 17 | 72 | These mines are tortuous networks of tunnels worming themselves inch by inch irregularly through the rich ores that are the foundation of the wealth of the city. |
| 17 | 73 | Most of the shaft tunnels do not allow a man to stand upright in them. |
| 17 | 74 | Many are inadequately braced. |
| 17 | 75 | As the slave works the tunnel, he crawls on his hands and knees, which bleed at first but gradually develop calluses of thick, scabrous tissue. |
| 17 | 76 | About his neck hangs a canvas bag in which pieces of ore are carried back to the scales. |
| 17 | 77 | The ore itself is freed from the sides of the mine by a small pick. |
| 17 | 78 | Light is supplied by tiny lamps, no more than small cups of tharlarion oil with fiber wicks. |