The relaxation were being their camp-followers - kinfolk and mates, largely girls, boys and the like who picked up the loot, as it came, and assisted to transport it to the other facet of the river whence it was forwarded home. There were being every day parades of boys and girls everywhere you go with the everlasting singing of the tune of 'John Brown's Body' and hymns of praise for Mao Tse Tung.