From the very first day we came ashore, good Master Hunt went about
urging that great effort be made to keep the houses, and the paths
around them, cleanly, saying that unless we did so, there was like
to be a sickness come among us. With some his preaching did good,
but by far the greater number, and these chiefly to be found among
the self called gentlemen, gave no heed.
It was as if these lazy ones delighted in filth. Again and again
have I seen one or another throw the scrapings of the trencher bowls
just outside the door of the tent or hut, where those who came or
went must of a necessity tread upon them, and one need not struggle
hard to realize what soon was the condition of the village.
After a heavy shower many of the paths were covered ankle deep
with filth of all kinds, and when the sun shone warm and bright,
the stench was too horrible to be described by ordinary words.
CAVE HOMES
There were other kinds of homes, and quite a number of them, that
were made neither of cloth nor of logs.
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