Even their omissions are sometimes significant - for instance, when a child finds nothing to record in all the horrors of the march of a slave-caravan from the far interior to the coast, except the number of days it seemed to occupy. What difference did a little more or less of starvation or torture make, after all, but a darker shade or so in the common tissue of human life? (Madan, 1887, pp. 3-4).  
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[^0]:    6 CAOM, Madagascar 269, d.601, 'Immigration africaine. Recrutement des travailleurs à Mozambique à destination de Mayotte et Nossi-Be (1874-1880), Interrogatoire des enfants faisant partie du convoie d’engagés introduits dans la colonie par le boutre français le Machassy [...]', Sasias and interpreter Amadie, 13 January 1880. My gratitude again to Dr. Boyer-Rossol.