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Tvas not Daaga's countryman, hence he could not speak 

 to him in his own language. The Paupau then levelled 

 his musket and shot the fallen soldier, who oroaned and 

 died. The war-yells, or rather growls, of the Paupaus and 

 Tarabbas now became awfully thrilling, as they helped 

 themselves to cartridcjes : most of them were fortunatelv 

 blank, or without ball. Xever was a premeditated mutiny 

 so wild and ill planned. Their chief, Daaga, and Ogston, 

 seemed to have had little command of the subordinates, and 

 the whole acted more like a set of wild beasts who had 

 broken their ca^'es than men resolved on war. 



"At this period, had a rursh been made at the officers' 

 quarters by one half (they were more than 200 in number), 

 and the other half surrounded the building, not one could 

 have escaped. Instead of this they continued to shout their 

 war-song, and howl their war-notes ; the}^ loaded their 

 pieces with ball-cartridge, or blank-cartridge and small 

 stones, and commenced firing at the long range of white 

 buildings in which Colonel Bush and his officers slept. Thev 

 wasted so much ammunition on this useless display of fury 

 that the buildings were completely riddled. A few of the 

 old soldiers opposed them, and were wounded ; but it fortu- 

 nately happened that they were, to an inconceivable degree, 

 ignorant of the right use of fire-arms holding their muskets 

 in their hands when they discharged them, without allowin"" 



