TIIE BAROTSE COUNTRY. 
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powder. By that time the whole of the huts were 
ablaze, but happily the fire could not reach us where 
we stood. Verissimo was at my side. I turned to him 
and said, “ I can defend myself here for a considerable 
time ; make your way through, where and how you can, 
and speed to Lialui. There see Lobossi, and tell him 
that his people are attacking me. See also Machauana, 
and inform him of my danger. 
Verissimo ran towards the burning huts, and I 
watched him till he disappeared amid the ruins. B} r 
that time the assegais were falling thickly round us, 
AMBDELLA ARROW-HEADS. 
and already some of my men had been badly wounded, 
among others Silva Porto’s negro Jamba, whose right 
eye-brow was pierced by one of these weapons. My 
Quimbares answered these volleys with rifle-balls, but 
still the natives came on, and had now made their way 
into the encampment, where the huts all lying in ashes 
offered no effective barrier to their advance. I was 
standing in the middle of the ground, before alluded to, 
guarding my country’s flag, whilst all round me my 
valiant Quimbares, who had now recovered heart, were 
firing in good earnest. But were they all there? No. 
One man was wanting,—one man whose place before 
all others should have been at my side, but whom no 
one had seen,—Caiumbuca, my second in command, had 
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