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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Are you Christian dogs willing to earn your food now?" inquired the old sheik, as he entered the goat-penn.
The call for water was apparently unheeded by the Arab men, but it was evidently music to many of the children of the village, for it attracted them to the door of the goat-penn, around which they clustered, listening with strong expressions of delight. Through a long night of indescribable agony, the cry of "Water!
That night, after being driven within the walls of the town, the white slaves, along with their guard, and the Krooman, were fastened in a large stone building partly in ruins, that had been recently used as a goat-penn. They were not allowed a mouthful of food nor a drop of water, and sentinels walked around all night to prevent them from breaking out of their prison.
It was not until the two Arabs had obtained the assistance of several of the women and boys of the village that they succeeded in getting the white slaves within the goat-penn. "Jim, I tell you I can't stand this any longer," said Sailor Bill. "Call an' say to 'em as I gives in, and will work to-morrow, if they will let me have some water." "And so will I," said Terence.
On reaching the door of the goat-penn, they refused to go in, all clamouring loudly for food and water. Their entreaties were met with the declaration that it was the will of God that those who would not work should suffer starvation. "Idleness," argued their masters, "is always punished by ill health;" and they wound up by expressing their thanks that such was the case.
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