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sional visits from one or two of the stray revellers ; but 

 when these began to make themselves too unpleasant, by 

 adopting vigorous measures and ejecting two of the 

 revellers from my quarters more forcibly than politely, 

 I established a sort of sacred circle round myself into 

 which there was no further intrusion. 



Through some not very obscure cause the house in 

 which my men were spending the night caught fire, 

 and was burned during the night ; and I had some little 

 difficulty in rescuing my goods uninjured. Often on 

 these savannahs one passes burned and abandoned 

 houses ; and I never do so now without wondering 

 whether they were destroyed on some such festival as 

 that just described. 



If time and opportunity permit, I propose to continue 

 the subject of " Primitive Games" in a future number of 

 Timehri. 



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