The Windows of larger buildings were smashed and the tile roofs of houses had crumbled to the ground, while old concrete-block walls were reduced to rubble.

Back at the smokehouse, Turner showed me the two concrete-block Chambers where the eels-dressed and brined in salt, brown sugar, and local honey-are hung on rods.

Several soldiers mix cement on the street, lifting it up to their colleagues who use it as mortar, placing a concrete block on top of concrete block.