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# Storia do Mogor 374.4

Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 374.4

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### [374.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.374.4)

The soldiers accept anything and everything, being forced by necessity ; for if they cannot obtain military service, they have no means of living. Speaking generally, all these soldiers are badly paid and ill-satisfied, for what should be given them in eight months they do not receive in a year. What is worst of all, they are never paid the exact amount due, but little by little. Then they always have to take in the course of a year's service two months' pay in second-hand goods. In many cases they are kept two and three years in arrears. This forces the soldiers to borrow money at interest from the traders in the camp ; these lend it with the consent of the men's own captains and generals, with whom they then . . . \[The paper ends with this uncompleted sentence.\]

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