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party passed, Hnaisiline heard them saying, ‘Kolo si Guama’ 
(Alas, for the Guahamites). 
“The attack was now imminent. Hnaisiline’s eyes grew 
dim with excitement, and he got out of the main road and 
found himself brought to a stand, the way being blocked 
up. A man appeared and called out, “Yonder is the road.’ 
He turned into the road, and having done so heard a man 
who had been set to watch call out, ‘They go by the road 
to the right.’ The liers in wait moved from the place where 
they had been, and placed themselves near a part of the road 
which Hnaisiline and party must pass; coming to a part 
which was rough and entangled, and making a slight bend 
in the narrow path, they found it blocked with armed men. 
“Hnaisiline walked straight up to them, and as he did 
so they parted so as to allow him to proceed. The leader 
of the heathen party was known to Hnaisiline, and calling 
him by name he said, in a commanding tone, ‘Wathotha, 
what is this?’ ‘“Oh,’ he replied, “we are just going to fish.’ 
Hnaisiline knew well enough that this was a lie; so with 
a simple exclamation of surprise he stepped on. Imme- 
diately, however, he heard blows—the ruffians had attacked 
those behind him. 
“Turning round, Tizelo and Waingara, on whom the sav- 
ages had fallen, rushed to him for protection. He took the 
head of one under his left arm, and the head of the other 
under his right, and with his ax tried to keep the murderers 
off. They seemed to shrink from injuring him, he being a 
great chief, and withal he had been a noted warrior in former 
days. They wreaked their vengeance on poor Tizelo and 
Waingara, savagely beating them with their clubs and pierc- 
ing them with their spears. Waingara fell first, and his 
body was immediately dragged away to the oven, his mur- 
derers quarreling about his clothes. 
“Hnaisiline continued to defend Tizelo some time longer, 
but so unequal a struggle could not be long maintained, and 
Tizelo soon fell lifeless. During the struggle Hnaisiline 
