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the centre of the circle, instead of being carried, 

 as was proposed, to Herhowlee. Their case was 

 first discussed, and after a deal of arguing, five 

 dollars' worth of blue sood and a tobe each, was 

 received by them as satisfaction for their wounds, 

 they undertaking also to accompany us through 

 their own country, on purpose to obviate the effects 

 of the evil reports it was expected their friends, 

 who ran away from the conflict, would spread. A 

 drawback from one of these wounded men was one 

 dollar's worth of sood, paid to Himyah for the 

 wound in his arm. The old man on whose account 

 the quarrel commenced had to pay for two spears 

 and to receive one, in lieu of which he consented 

 to take one of the shields that had been thrown 

 away by the fugitives. In this manner all injured 

 articles, every deep cut or smallest bruise, was 

 fairly balanced according to their ideas of the 

 market value of such commodities, against every 

 kind of merchandise, from a cow or sheep down to 

 a handful of tobacco. 



Long before this business was concluded, Zaido, 

 who, in addition to his other duties, was cashier to 

 Ohmed Mahomed, had come to a conclusion that 

 our halt at Barradudah would be a very expensive 

 one. Already he had manufactured into the cur- 

 rency of the country one entire piece of blue 

 calico, and still fresli comers, demanding their com- 

 pensation, kept him measuring cubits with his fore 

 arm, and then tearing each half dollar's worth 



