Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon (Burton & Swinburne)
“(Every region is a strong man's home.) –SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON'S MOTTO The clangour of the parade bell sounded and voices hollered: “Aufwachen! Aufwachen!”
In Barrack 5, Compound B, of Stalag IV at Ugogi, Sir Richard Francis Burton and his fellow prisoners of war dragged themselves wearily from their bunks, quickly put on their grey uniforms, and tumbled out onto the dusty parade ground, which was baking in the afternoon heat.
Obeying shouted orders, they arranged themselves into three rows..., facing forward, blinking and screwing up their faces as the glare of the white sky burned the sleep out of their eyes.
“What now?” the man to Burton's right grumbled. “Surely they can't be sending us back to the pass already?”
“They'll work us to death as long as they get the blasted road built,” another man growled.
They were referring to the passage the prisoners had been carving through the Usagara Mountains. Burton and his fellows had originally been incarcerated at Stalag III, near Zungomero, on the other side of the range.MoreLess
In Barrack 5, Compound B, of Stalag IV at Ugogi, Sir Richard Francis Burton and his fellow prisoners of war dragged themselves wearily from their bunks, quickly put on their grey uniforms, and tumbled out onto the dusty parade ground, which was baking in the afternoon heat.
Obeying shouted orders, they arranged themselves into three rows..., facing forward, blinking and screwing up their faces as the glare of the white sky burned the sleep out of their eyes.
“What now?” the man to Burton's right grumbled. “Surely they can't be sending us back to the pass already?”
“They'll work us to death as long as they get the blasted road built,” another man growled.
They were referring to the passage the prisoners had been carving through the Usagara Mountains. Burton and his fellows had originally been incarcerated at Stalag III, near Zungomero, on the other side of the range.MoreLess
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