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Stalls were overturned and the wares strewn upon the ground. 

 The air was filled with the crash of crockery, the yells and 

 curses of the men and screams of women and children, many 



A MOBBUR WOMAN 



of whom fell in their flight and were trampled upon. Then 

 into the midst of the terror-stricken mob a band of about a 

 hundred Tubu horsemen charged furiously. On they came 

 right through the scattering people. And it was a wonderful 

 sight to see a man in almost one movement throw his spear 

 into the air, catch it and send it hurtling into the back of a 

 flying victim. 



Meanwhile their allies, the Mobburs, who had been 



hanging about handy to the horses and cattle all the day, 



cut the tethers of the animals and drove off their plunder, 



unobserved amid the general confusion. Eight or nine men 



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