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MUNGO PARK'S 
We proceeded without further molestation till about 
three o'clock in the afternoon, when it came on a tornado. 
During the rain one of the sick had fallen a little behind, 
and four people seizing him, stripped off his jacket. He 
followed them at a distance ; and when they came up to 
Mr. Anderson and myself, he called out to us to shoot one 
of them, as they had taken his jacket. I had my pocket 
handkerchief on the lock of my gun to keep the priming 
dry. When they observed me remove it, one of them 
pulled out the jacket from under his cloak, and laid it on 
one of the asses. Mr. Anderson followed them on horse- 
back, and I kept as near him as I could on foot, my horse 
being loaded. After following them about three miles, 
they struck into the woods ; and suspecting that they had 
a mind to return and steal some of the loads from the 
fatigued asses in the rear, I returned with Mr. Scott> and 
found that one of the soldiers had lost his knapsack, and 
another his jacket. But from their description, the rob- 
bers were not the same as had formerly passed. 
Continued in the rear. When we came within a mile 
of the town of Nummaboo, the road passes near some high 
rocks. The asses being a little way before us, two of the 
robbers first seen came from amongst the rocks, and were 
going towards the asses ; but when they observed us com- 
ing up, they attempted to slide off unobserved among the 
