Women, children, and men were going pell-mell, and the overseers urged them on with the whip.

There were unfortunate mothers who, nursing one child, held a second by the hand that was free.

Others dragged these little beings along, without clothing, without shoes, on the sharp grasses of the soil.
The chief of the caravan, that ferocious Ibn Hamis, who had interfered in the struggle between Dick Sand and his overseer, watched this whole troop, going backwards and forwards from the head to the foot of the long column.

If his agents and he troubled themselves but little about the sufferings of their captives, they must reckon more seriously either with the soldiers who claimed some additional rations, or with the "pagazis" who wanted to halt.

Thence discussions; often even an exchange of brutality.