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embraces and sharp kisses of admiring damsels. When 

 recovered from the shock of this great outburst of 

 feelings, Kanoni begged me to fire a few shots, to ap- 

 prise his enemies, and especially his big brother, of 

 the honours paid him. No time was lost : I no sooner 

 gave the order than bang, bang went every one of the 

 escort's guns, and the excited crowd, immediately 

 seeing a supposed antagonist in the foreground, rushed 

 madly after him. Then spears were flourished, thrust, 

 stabbed, and withdrawn ; arrows were pointed, huge 

 shields protected black bodies, sticks and stones flew 

 like hail ; then there was a slight retreat, then another 

 advance dancing to one side, then to the other 

 jumping and prancing on the same ground, with 

 bodies swaying here and bodies swaying there, until 

 at length the whole foreground was a mass of moving 

 objects, all springs and hops, like an army of frogs, 

 after the first burst of rain, advancing to a pond : 

 then again the guns went off, giving a fresh impulse 

 to the exciting exercise. Their great principle in war- 

 fare appears to be, that no one should be still. At 

 each report of the guns, fresh enemies were discovered 

 retreating, and the numbers of their slain were quite 

 surprising. These, as they dropped, were, with highly 

 dramatic action, severally and immediately trampled 

 down and knelt upon, and hacked and chopped re- 

 peatedly with knives, whilst the slayer continued 

 showing his savage wrath by worrying his supposed 

 victim with all the angry energy that dogs display 



