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one of them, and the other two were very deep. 
When every attention in the dressing, &c., had 
been paid, and I found that there was no hope 
of getting hold of the savage who inflicted them, 
I sent her to the chief of the town, to whom we 
gave ten bars for her support, until she might 
be able to return to Kayaye. As an inducement 
to make this man act kindly to her, we gave 
him a further sum of ten bars for himself, and 
offered a handsome reward for the apprehen- 
sion of her husband. 
About three miles before we reached this 
town, we observed some stones of curious form 
and composed of red sand-stone, in which were 
encrusted small silicious pebbles. They had 
much the appearance of broken pillars ; some 
were standing upright, and others lying flat on 
the surface. From the space inside them, and its 
form, which was an oblong square, we are in- 
clined to think they must, at some former pe- 
riod, have supported a roof. The largest of 
them is as four feet in circumference, and seven 
feet high. 
Sandoo Madina is a very small walled village, 
inhabited by Jomkeys, and is subject to Katoba, 
but more immediately under the control of the 
Wallia chief, who is himself nominally subject 
to the former. This subjection is however not 
easily defined : a slave running aw^ay from one 
