lt FORCE “THE ARBORE ‘TO “FRADE. 269 
along, instead of being hampered down with many boxes 
and bales. Holding Baro Archali as a hostage, I let the 
other two kings go, with orders that they were to bring 
me seventy good bullocks and two hundred sheep. The 
many hundred spears, and quivers full of arrows, which the 
natives had thrown away in their flight, were brought to 
the camp and burnt, 
after I had _ selected 
what I wanted to add 
to my ethnological 
collection. 
Toward -sunset a 
drove of about four 
hundred fine donkeys, 
and about thirty milch 
cows, wandered up to 
the villages, where- 
upon I sent my boys 
to choose forty don- 
keys and three good 
cows to add to the 
caravan. By the end 
of the second day after 
theshioht, the Ambore 
ARBORE WAR HAT. 
had brought all the 
animals I had ordered, glad enough to have been let off 
so easily. 
Retaining only about sixty pieces of cloth and twenty 
pounds of beads, I gave all the rest of my trading goods to 
the Arbore, which quite compensated them for the loss of 
their animals, but not of course for the loss of their pres- 
tige as warriors. They expressed much surprise that I 
had treated them so liberally, and promised in future to 
be friends with any white man who visited their country. 
