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Despite the area being delayed by 48 hours and our successive visits to the villages and to the syndicate of Varocha, only 9 workmen, including a son of Michaël, used as helper.
5 are posted on the Courtois area 3 " " " " Johnstone Following my requests to Karageorghis and more or less legally, Michaël comes from 6h00 to 8h30 and from 15h00 to 16h30
day's work spent removing, besides the old spoil, an alluvial earth entirely sterile, made hard and compact by the water in winter and the dryness of summer. The mass thus cleared makes its removal indispensable, by the usual means which is carried out in the evening after stopping work on the area weather very fine, light wind tending SE sent report to Monsieur Schaeffer.
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