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thing to say on the subject, should do so. Each 
chief then paid his respects to the Tonca, by 
calling aloud his surname (Batchirie) and wish- 
ing him a long and prosperous reign. The chief of 
Dramanet, who is a priest and styled Almamy, 
spoke much. He said that, during the late wars 
with Bondoo, many of the chiefs present had 
either abandoned their towns to the enemy and 
taken refuge in those on the west side of the 
Faleme, there remaining inactive spectators of 
their country's fall, or openly assisted in its de- 
struction, which their base conduct had so nearly 
completed that it became absolutely necessary 
they should adopt some decisive measure for its 
defence. He called on them to take example by 
the hitherto unsubdued resistance made by Samba 
Congole and the chiefs of Maghana and Magha- 
doo-goo, who preferred risking their own lives 
and the liberty of their families to a galling and 
disgraceful subjection to their enemies : that 
the time was now arrived when an understand- 
ing must be established between them 5 and he 
advised them strongly to return to their duty, 
rebuild their towns, and support with him and 
his colleagues a war which threatened their 
very existence. Tonca and Samba spoke in 
their turn to nearly the same purpose. The 
end of each sentence spoken by the former 
was followed by two or three strokes on a 
