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towns were plundered and many people carried 
ofi* — among them one of Mr. Burton's sawyers 
and the husband of his school-mistress. Mr. 
Davis, the commander at Bonth, mustered his 
police force and went to the war barricade and de- 
manded the prisoners. They would not open the 
barricade. Mr. Davis ordered his men to cut 
through it. He was shot through the neck, hand, 
and in the .breast, and four policemen were killed 
on the spot. Davis’ men retreated, carrying him 
away badly wounded. The Kossoos, it is said, 
now killed all their Sierra Leone prisoners, among 
them Mr. Burton’s sawyer. They then evacuated 
the barricade and started for the Kossoo countrv. 
In their hasty march they threw away their baby 
prisoners in the bushes. One was picked up alive, 
and others were found dead: Word was imme- 
diately sent to the governor, w^ho took eighty 
soldiers, and- 1 believe about sixty policemen, and 
went to Bonth. 
I landed at Freetown on the night of December 
I3th, and found Brother Wolfe there. We are 
preparing to start for Shengay on the 16th. Small- 
pox is still raging in and about Shengay and Bom- 
phetook. The governor has caught John Caul- 
ker. Commander Davis is improving. 
On the 22d I sent Tom up the Cockburrow for 
some rice. He landed 'at one of the towns not 
