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represent actual working days, and not a consecutive period, nor even two such
periods before and after the plague. Various minor and routine intermissions
must have occurred; it would, for instance, probably have been dangerous to
carry on with the work during the height of a monsoon, with the ever-present
possibility of a sudden flood.
10. cf. Calendars, 25 and note 67.
11. Arabia Felix, London 1938,9.