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AN ALAKMKD SPECIMEN OF ANTIQriTY. 
US on either side, just as a crowd makes a passage for 
a mad bull. They left most of their things behind, 
though there was one fellow who took time to sling 
a pig over his shoulders, and one tall, finely-formed 
Avoman avIio gathered up her bundle of rice and walked 
off' Avith majestic dignity. Those Av'ho Avere more distant 
from us mostly disappeared doAvn neighbouring streets 
or into friendly houses, though there Avere some Avho 
had the courage to remain to pack their AA’ares hurriedly 
before flight. The cattle, too, became alarmed at the 
general commotion, and added their antics to the con- 
fusion of the scene. I never before saAV such a state of 
“undecided alarm.'' 
Being unwilling to cause any more inconvenience than 
they had already subjected thcmselA'CS to, avc stood per- 
fectly still and called out the names of several of their 
officials, hoping that the familiar sounds Avould quiet 
their fears and cause them to return to their property. 
In this we were eminently successful, and Ave soon had 
the pleasure of Avulking among them, though it Avas 
still impossible to gaze at any but an averted face. 
Upon another of these occasions, Avhen avc had lost our 
way among the crooked, alley-like streets of Ifappa, avc 
more than once found said streets ending in prwate 
houses, to the infinite terror of their half-clad occupants; 
and before Ave had Avorked our Avaj" out of the labyrinth 
Ave nearly frightened to death t\\’o “ unprotected females” 
Avhose fortune threw them in our path. One of these — a 
very old and decrepit specimen, apparently — Ave encoun- 
tered suddenly upon turning a corner, and so startled her 
that she could onl}’ gaze at us in stupid Avonder until Ave 
