While he was having lunch, I asked our beloved captain if such an uninterrupted walk of over eleven miles did not tire him out.
I should not say I am very tired; to be sure, I am tired, but it is ordinary fatigue. I myself am amazed that I should have been able to walk so far at a stretch. You know I have had no practice for some time in long-distance walking....
I asked him what he would like to say in regard to the parallel between the great march of 3,000 men, women and children he had organized in South Africa and the present march to the sea-coast.
Well, the technique is the same even though the organization is different. Soul-force is the weapon common to both. In South Africa, however, there were 3,000 persons, here we are only 79. Again in South Africa we were in the midst of a hostile environment, social as well as political, and we had to carry our own foodstuffs with us; here we are in the midst of a hospitable environment and do not have to carry our food. The march in South Africa was attended by greater hardships than the present one.
