He is caught in the barbed wire which he himself helped to set up.
Except for derelict huts and bashas, the camps were little more than barbed wire enclosures in which wild beasts might have been herded together.
The place has been fortified undoubtedly, but living in barbed-wire entanglements means sheltering behind barbed wires, and that is a most fantastical idea.
The project farmers were provided with seed to establish the new pastures, barbed wire to fence them o and technical assistance in pasture establishment.
Clearly, there was barbed wire and constraints on the internees' freedom but there was also a high degree of selfgovernment within the camp.
Three lines (at 40, 60 and 80 m from the ground) of barbed wire attached to the trap protected the seeds from predation by cattle.
He walks over to a charred tree, the branches of which have grown barbed wire.
Three strands of barbed wire, the lowest set at 25 cm above the ground, were used for each exclosure.