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The speaker recalls hauling four thousand carcasses with cable and rope while contending with flies, mosquitoes and disease.

The speaker ends this short passage with the workers trying to cope amid the dead cargo. The number of carcasses and the tools of hauling place physical labor alongside the threat of illness.

Five handwritten rows: 'ThE 4,000 cArcAssEs / HAd bEEN tAKEN up with cAblE ANd ropE' while the men 'did our bEst to copE / with thE fLIEs ANd Mosquitos of disEAsE'.

A compact picture of the cleanup after the deaths. The plain listing of carcasses, flies and disease makes the scale of the loss concrete.