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Updated: May 8, 2025
The corn-tax is to be regularly collected, so that three months' supply shall be the minimum in the camp granaries. The bugle to sound the night alarm once every month, to accustom the men to night quarters. The troops to occupy their stations at general quarters, according to present practice. Banana plants to be introduced upon every opportunity from Magungo.
"Head you! No!" "Will you betray us?" "It is not easy to betray twenty thousand men; if ye rise merely to free yourselves from a corn-tax and England from the Woodvilles, I see no treason in your revolt." "I understand you, Lord Montagu," said Robin, with a stern and half-scornful smile, "you are not above thriving by our danger; but we need now no lord and baron, we will suffice for ourselves.
How many old labourers, old operatives, or miners are now left to recall the wretchedness of that toiling and starving childhood before the corn-tax was removed? Few are remaining now, and they speak little and will soon be gone. The horror of it is scattered like the night, and we think no more of it, nor imagine its reality.
All my work was completed, and I could do nothing until the reinforcements should arrive from Gondokoro. The natives paid their trifling corn-tax with great good humour, and they generally arrived in crowds of several hundreds, singing and dancing, with large baskets of tullaboon upon their heads, with which they filled our rows of granaries.
"Head you! No I" "Will you betray us?" "It is not easy to betray twenty thousand men; if ye rise merely to free yourselves from a corn-tax and England from the Woodvilles, I see no treason in your revolt." "I understand you, Lord Montagu," said Robin, with a stern and half- scornful smile, "you are not above thriving by our danger; but we need now no lord and baron, we will suffice for ourselves.
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