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ground
to the floors. The trays were filled with tailings, banked up on the
outside with the same material, and coped with sand bags. Large
shelters were made within the forts for the protec-
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tion of the garrisons. As tents were not to be obtained, spacious houses with roofs of corrugated iron and sides of canvas were constructed as sleeping and eating rooms, and for protection
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against
the tropical sun and violent thunderstorms. When the supply of
corrugated iron gave out in town, for even the enormous stock of De
Beers did not prove equal to the demand, the
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