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the praulial apprentices of the ch'cumjacent estates : not the 

 slightest foundation existed for this a23prehension. Some 

 months previous to this Daaga had planned a mutiny, hut 

 this was interrupted by sending a part of the Paupau and 

 STarraba recruits to St. Lucia. The object of all those con- 

 spiracies was to get back to Guinea; which they thought they 

 could accomplish by marching to eastward. 



" On the night of the 17th of June, 1837, the people of 

 San Josef were kept awake by the recruits, about 280 in 

 number, singing the war-song of the Paupaus. This wild 

 song consisted of a short air and chorus. The tone was, 

 although wild, not inharmonious, and the words rather 

 euphonious. As near as our alphabet can convey them, 

 they ran thus : 



' Dangkarree 

 All fey, 

 Oliiu werrei, 

 All lay.' 



which may be rendered almost literally by the following 

 couplet : 



Air Ijy the chief : ' Come to plunder, come to slay ;' 

 Chorus of followers : ' "We are ready to obey. ' 



"About three o'clock in the morning their war-song 

 i (highly characteristic of a predatory tribe) became very loud, 

 and they commenced uttering their war-cry. This is dif- 

 ferent from what we conceive the Indian war-whoop to be : it 



