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So far so good.

"No fear can stand upto hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply doesn't exist where hunger is; and as to belief, superstition and principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know the devility of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its sombre & brooding ferocity? It is easier to face death, dishonor and perdition of one's soul - than this kind of prolonged hunger"

"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they are nothing earthly now. Nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recess of the coast, in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest."

I will never finish reading this...