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the elephant, and on this account affording a very- 
difficult passage for cavalry, at others of dense forest, 
the one following the other in rapid succession, 
separated Wiiliya from another principality of the 
name of Bdrea, and inhabited by a tribe of the 
Musgu of the name of A'bare. It was characteristic 
of the little peaceful intercourse which exists among 
these various petty tribes, that the A'bare did not 
seem to have had the slightest information of the ap- 
proach of the expedition, till we suddenly came upon 
them through the dense forest, so that they had 
scarcely time to escape with their families from the 
village, and endeavour to hide themselves in the dense 
covert of the forest towards the east. They were 
pursued and overpowered, after a short resistance, by 
the continually increasing numbers of the enemy ; and 
the booty of that day, chiefly in cattle, was rather 
considerable. Slaves w^ere also brought in in con- 
siderable numbers, principally young boys and girls. 
The distance of the field of battle spared us the sight 
of the slaughter of the full-grown men. 
We chose our camping-ground on the stubble-fields 
between the straggling groups of the village, which, 
were beautifully adorned by some fine specimens 
of the deleb-palm ; and I took the opportunity of 
making a sketch of this scene of natural fertility and 
wanton destruction of human happiness. The huts 
in general were of the same construction and ar- 
rangement as those described above ; but in one of 
them I found a kind of three-pointed harpoon or 
