AT THE MODEL FARM. 
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of po\yer and proneness to abuse it, it may be men- 
tioned that a number of the surrounding natives had 
been hired to assist the people at the farm, in trans- 
Sliimaboe, uncle of the AttMi, chief of Gandeh on the Chadda, also 
shewed good feelijig towards the settlers. He performed a praise- 
worthy act in reconciling two petty chiefs, who for some trifling 
quarrel or debt, had been in the habit of capturing and selling such, 
of the I’elatives and followers of one another as they could entrap. 
King, told him that this deed would afford the white men great 
pleasure on their return. 
March ^rd . — The whole district was in alarm at the reported 
approach of the Filatah army. The inhabitants of all the villages 
instantly took refuge on the sandbanks, and this was the only occasion 
on which King was aide to muster his crew on board the schooner. 
The invaders, howevei*, withdrew in the evening, 
“The city of Egga has remained unmolested by them, since tlie 
visit of the ‘Albert,’ but the marauders liad divided their army, one 
party intercepted all canoes going to the market below the Confluence, 
and the other had intended to attack Toto, the Kakauda people, and 
the settlers at the model fann ; but the King of R.al)hah was reported 
to have sent to the general, named Markeny, to deter him, saving, 
that ‘white men had come from a distant country to see him but had 
been obliged to turn back by reason of illness, that they had left 
some of their party as settlers, and it was not comely nor reasonable 
to hurt strangers in that way.’ One of the methods practised by the 
Filatahs in the countries devoted to their aggression, appears to he 
that parties of about ten horsemen and some foot soldiers, lie in wait 
in the ‘ bush,’ near a village, and at daylight, when the unsuspecting 
natives go to their work in the fields, they are seized and hurried off 
to their camp, where they are kept in chains till sent off to the 
markets, hut the women are thus confined only during the night, a 
few cowries being given for their daily subsistence. 
“King witnessed several cases of kidnapping and private slave catch- 
ing. A man applied to him for redress against a icoman^ who had 
recently captured two of liis brothers, one of whom she had already 
sold- on an allegation of robbery lie said she had sold eleven of his 
