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'In coming to deal with a place of such strength as this, replied his lordship, I mean the keep whereon we now stand, not the castle, which, alas! hath many weak points the enemy would assuredly change the siege into a blockade; that is, he would try to starve instead of fire us out; and, procuring information sufficiently to the point, would be like enough to dig deep and cut the water-veins which supply that well; and thereafter all would depend on the cistern.
'In coming to deal with a place of such strength as this, replied his lordship, I mean the keep whereon we now stand, not the castle, which, alas! hath many weak points the enemy would assuredly change the siege into a blockade; that is, he would try to starve instead of fire us out; and, procuring information sufficiently to the point, would be like enough to dig deep and cut the water-veins which supply that well; and thereafter all would depend on the cistern.
Went nosing about the Libyan desert, and found that considerable tracts of it have water-veins only a few yards beneath the surface. If so, of course, it's only a question of proper plant to turn an enormous area into a paradise for corn-growing." "Good gracious! What a discovery!" gasped the other, almost breathless now.
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