The only place to drink from inside the slave house, Zebby contemplates with Musa our unpaid guide

Inside this place would be over 100 men women and children . There are no toilets and no water apart from this hole in the ground from which to drink (think about it ! ) This "well" depended on the height of the river Gambia. If the river was low the water level would be to far down to reach . The overseers never came inside for fear of their lives ( I can grasp that ) food would be tipped down gullies where the ceiling meets the walls . It would generally be a case of the fittest and healthiest getting the food