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graze with impunity ; hut if they enter the limits occupied by the 
fly, the consequences are fatal to numbers of the herd, if not to the 
whole. 
From the neglected state of the kraal we were occupying, I 
presumed it had not been used for some time, and Atchwack said 
that two years ago it had been the site of an encounter with 
some of the Rhol, and it had not been occupied since. He then 
related that during the absence of many of the men who had gone 
to their homes at Jam Jam in quest of grain, the kraal had 
suddenly been attacked by the Ehol, who occupied two kraals a 
short distance westwards of Augur. The surprised negroes had 
but time to secrete their wives and children in the bush, when 
six men, of whom one was Atchwack, returned to the kraal, to And 
their cattle had been driven off. They followed the trail, and on 
the conflnes of the forest came up with the Ehol men driving the 
cattle, and attacked them with so much vigour that twenty of the 
Ehol were slain ; the others, panic-stricken, fled, leaving the cattle 
in the hands of their owners, who returned in triumph with their 
herds. 
Proceeding forthwith to Jam Jam, their success so elated the 
tribe that they determined in full force to attack their faithless 
neighbours. The kraals were empty, but, following the tracks, 
they penetrated into the heart of the Ehol territory, when they 
came upon the pursued, and after an obstinate encounter, with 
serious loss of life on both sides, the Atwat were the victors ; and 
possessing themselves of several thousand head of cattle, they suc- 
ceeded in driving them into their own country. 
While on the subject of cattle and kraals, any persons who has 
seen one may have remarked its being continually enveloped in 
clouds of smoke, issuing from neatly construeted conical mounds 
