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and they were all in rage. The reason for the half-hour delay was penalty labour, since the lieutenant in charge decided that not enough work had been done. Now it may be, and some admit as much, that not everybody is highly industrious, but this is forced labour, not voluntary one. All have done more than enough for the meagre pay of 1/.-. Also, on this day, for the first time, their workload consisted of gathering and loading onto a wagon tree stumps of varying sizes, all half-burnt and charred. Apart from the sheer weight of some of these, the charred stumps sullied the clothes, faces and hands so much that some gentlemen looked like chimney sweeps upon their return to camp. It was in particular the
9th company that was forced to do this work, most likely intentionally. Most of these
gentlemen are merchants and hardly suited to such physical and dirty work, and