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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



and fieht a chief called "the Pasha," who had enormous flocks 

 and herds, together with thousands of beautiful women and other 

 alluring spoil ; but they had not heard that they were to carry 

 three thousand elephants' tusks to the station of Atroosh. 



Baker's spies now told them the truth. "Fight the Pasha!" 

 they exclaimed ; "do you not know who he is? and that he could 

 kill you all like fowls? He has no cows for you to carry off, but 



