Isn't It Time to Work Hard and Finish Quick?

"I was whirled away from my dearest hopes, as the hurricane snatches the tree from the forest and casts it into the surging sea," he writes. "Master tells Sausi to buy more slaves, work hard and finish quick... Baa! How can any man finish a big job quick? Picture a desert with not a tree. Just low shrubs and a sun burning with such fury the water in our barrels became so hot we could scarcely drink it." He says: 'The last sight of Maggiro's hands were deeply calloused from hard work, but his heart was light and there was happiness on his face'