History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c12.s1.t3.5

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The bamboo baskets of ore were passed along a chain of persons, usually 4 to 12 in number who set upon their haunches in the galleries or stood on the niches cut in the shafts, when the whole reached the foremost man, they moved upwards and again ranged themselves and this was continued until the mouth of the mine was reached.