1.   As she spoke, hundreds of her fellow refugees waded by in murky water filled with human waste, carrying meagre belongings on their heads.

2.   The Qian household had just sat down to dinner Saturday after cleaning up their home and meagre belongings.

3.   It is left to the villagers themselves to search through the twisted wreckage of their homes for what is left of their meagre belongings, or possibly their dead.

4.   People carrying meagre belongings in suitcases and bags walked to bus stops and railway stations, witnesses said.

5.   The first refugees to cross complained they had been beaten up by drunken Zairean soldiers who looted their meagre belongings, but those arriving Wednesday had no complaints.

6.   The girls carried their meagre belongings in plastic carry bags.