36 RESIDENCE OF A NATIVE CHIEFTAIN, 
now they will not allow us to live. They take our 
children to sell, and our women are barbarously 
murdered with their knives. They begrudge them 
even a bullet. We are obliged now to live on the 
tops of the mountains, and hide ourselves in the 
caves. Not one of us dare descend to the plains. 
About a week ago,” he continued, “I was looking for 
food on the plains, and a party of horsemen got close 
to me before I saw them, so that I could not escape. 
They asked me if any cattle were to be found, and 
where the people lived. I told them there was 
no cattle left in the land, and that the people were © 
all killed. For this they gave me the beating, the 
marks of which you see all over me; they also kept 
me with them to press out of me any information 
as to persons who did still possess cattle, and would 
probably have killed me, but I escaped in the night.’ 
His artless and doleful tale affected us much, and 
desirous of changing the subject for a while, we told 
him it was the day on which we served our God; to 
which he answered that he saw the clouds arise so 
thick this morning, that he thought they indicated 
something particular ; now he should know also, that 
when the clouds were so black it was God’s day, and 
he should pray to Him. 
17th. Having with much difficulty learned from 
aman who came to us yesterday the position of some 
of the remaining inhabitants of these parts, we pre- 
vuiled, by the promise of a large present, upon two 
