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"We decided that if we pushed on we would be another four to five days without food. No guarantee of water," Ash said.

The slave houses and the mansion are constructed of tabby, a type of concrete made with lime from burned oyster shells mixed with sand, water, ash and crushed oyster shells.

Once in the water, Ash, who has been recovering from three spinal surgeries in three months, says he’s surprised by how the suit kept him afloat.

Participants believe a bath in the river on one of the festival's auspicious bathing days can rid them of their sins, and at the height of the gathering the river often becomes a mass of bodies — men and their sons stripped down to their underwear, veiled women wading in the water, ash smeared ascetics wearing marigold garlands and nothing else.

But the lofty top of a water ash, just missed by the short wings of the fugitive, forced the long pinion of the hawk to swerve a little, so that he partly missed his stroke.