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of ammunition, and worn out by fatigue, they 

 soon yielded to the violent onslaught of the enemy. 

 The Wagunya, or as some write the word Bajiini, 

 warriors, described to be a fierce race of savages, 

 descended from the Wasawahili, the Somal, and 

 the Arab colonists, charged in firm line, brandish- 

 ing spear-heads like those of the Wamasai, a cubit 

 long, and shouting as they waved their standards, 

 wooden hoops hung round with the dried and 

 stuffed spoils of men. 1 The Arabs fled with such 

 precipitation, that some 300 were drowned, an 

 indiscriminate massacre and mutilation took 

 place, the c England ' and the c Prince of Wales ' 

 opened an effectual fire upon their own boats 

 and friends ; the guns which had been landed were 

 all captured, and the Sayyid Khalid saved him- 

 self only by the speed of his horse. The opera- 

 tion was repeated with equal unsuccess next 

 year, Sayyid Said himself embarking on board 

 the 'Victoria : ' the general, Hammad bin Ahmad, 

 fell into an ambuscade, and again the artillery 

 was lost. After a blockade of the Coast, which 

 lasted till the end of 1866, the Kazi of Zanzi- 

 bar, Muhiyy el Din of Lamu, landing upon his 



1 The trophies are drawn out with a lanyard, and cut off 

 when the patient is still alive — after death they are not so 

 much valued'; finally they are dried so as to resemble isinglass. 



