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THRILLING ADVENTURES. 



MATABILI WARRIOR. 



escaped with life, by riding through and killing some of the 

 assailants. After travelling several days, and suffering 

 dreadfully from want of food and water, the party reached 

 Motito nearer dead than alive. 



" The reports of four savages of the Batlapi tribe who 

 joined us yesterday, determined us to halt a day for the pur- 

 pose of hunting. Richardson and myself left the wagons at 

 daybreak, attended by these men, and crossing the river, 

 took a north-westerly direction through a park of magnificent 

 camelthorn trees, many of which were groaning under the 

 huge nests of the social grosbeak ; whilst others were deco- 

 rated with green clusters of misletoe, the bright scarlet ber- 



