In this sentence, the word "inhabited" means that the camps were occupied or lived in by people, specifically by bands of prospectors. It implies that these camps were populated for a certain period of time before being abandoned.
Read the sentence from paragraph 2.
Some of them were probably only camps built by bands of prospectors, inhabited for a few months or years, and then carelessly abandoned for more promising fields.
What do you think the word inhabited means as it is used in this sentence?
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