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effort on my part to save her, she died three days 



afterwards. Swasuri was much affected by this sad 



occurrence, and on my questioning her as to her 



future plans, declared that now she had lost her 



mother, she would prefer to stay in my camp 



with my men's 



wives until her 



father returned 



from the Golam- 



bepo Mountains, 



for she feared 



that Mataka's 



men would pay 



her native village 



another visit ere 



long. Then, 



when her father 



came back, she 



would endeavour 



to persuade him 



to leave this part 



of the country 



and make his 



home in German territory, where they would be 



safe from the further attentions of these inhuman 



raiders. One of the boys, who expressed a desire 



to enter my service, I engaged ; the other returned 



safely to his village. 



SWASURI. 



