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the arm held upright by a relay of friends. The 
body is well covered over with clay and palm-oil to 
keep the patient as warm as possible. We examined 
some of the stumps of these unhappy offenders against 
the Edeeyah moral code, and they seemed to have 
been as well done, as if under the care of an accom- 
plished English surgeon. 
In their military arrangements they are no less 
sagacious and prudent than in their civil governance. 
Every one above the age of fifteen is liable to take 
part in their wars. They are all exercised with a 
precision which astonishes a European. Forming 
into sections, and marching in regular order, armed 
with long wooden spears, slings, and a few with 
muskets ; the Buyeh-riipi and Bota Klm-6, or 
chanting-priest, often taking the lead, and apparently 
directing in a sort of singing tone, the evolutions to 
be performed. The wars usually result from some 
aggressions, perhaps trifling, between certain towns, 
mostly those at a distance; but they almost always 
end without loss of life. Perhaps a few may receive 
painful spear wounds — the kind-heated Edeeyah being 
reluctant to take a fellow creature’s life — and then 
they come to an amicable arrangement. 
They are remarkably expert in the management of 
the spear and sling, and scarcely any animal, however 
small, can escape them at a moderate distance. 
Such as have fire-arms are very proud of them, and 
soon become first-rate shots, using them principally 
