A FALSE ALARM. 49 
. was in that state the other people caught the excitement, 
the drum beat more loudly, they sung more ferociously 
than before, the whole town became warlike in the ex- 
treme. Of course there was no more sleep for me. 
The morning at last came, but no warriors had appear- 
ed to attack the village. Jam sure a panic had seized 
_my friends, and that which they took for a man was 
nothing but some wild animal passing by the village 
walls. 
The rainy season had fairly set in in these regions at 
the time of my arrival, and thunder, lightning, and heavy 
showers were common both day and night. 
