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farm, at which he expressed his regret; but he fully 
concurred in the arrangements made by Lieutenant 
W ebb with respect to the disposal of the buildings and 
crops; and as his conduct had exidently been so 
friendly, he was presented with a damask tobe. After 
the interview with Shimaboe, Lieutenant Webb pro- 
ceeded on shore, having learned that the Fulahs or 
Filatahs were within three miles of the settlement, and 
engaged in an attempt on the village of Priapri, situated 
on a rocky eminence at the foot of Mount Pattfeh. He 
took with him one of the officers and an interpreter, 
being in hopes of obtaining an interview, with the chief 
of the invading army. On arriving at the scene of 
action, it was found that Agajah, the chief of the 
village attacked, had obliged them to retreat, thus 
frustrating the prospect of a meeting with the pre- 
datory Filatah chief. 
Agajah, a short robust man, with a countenance 
unusually open for an African, displayed two arrows 
as trophies of his late — probably bloodless — victory. 
He had with him about four hundred men, armed with 
bows and arrows : two persons, apparently of conse- 
quence, carried each an old-fashioned musket. These 
were the only fire-arms observed among them ; neverthe- 
less, the people were better appointed, and expressed 
more determination in their looks, than was to be 
expected from them. The position of the village — 
Priapri — was well chosen to resist an attack, and the 
chief averred he had successfully resisted all inroads for 
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