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APPREHENSIVE OF AN ATTACK. 
[chap. y. 
Unfortunately a great change had likewise taken 
place in the manner of the Latookas. The whole 
town was greatly excited, drums were beating and 
horns blowing in all quarters, every one rejoicing at 
the annihilation of Mahommed Her’s party. The 
natives no longer respected the superior power of 
guns ; in a hand-to-hand fight they had proved their 
own superiority, and they had not the sense to distin¬ 
guish the difference between a struggle in a steep 
mountain pass and a battle on the open plain. Ibra¬ 
him was apprehensive of a general attack on his party 
by the Latookas. 
This was rather awkward, as it was necessary for 
him to return to Gondokoro for a large supply of 
ammunition which had been left there for want of 
porters to convey it, when he had started for the 
interior. To march to Gondokoro, and to guard the 
ammunition, would require a large force in the present 
disturbed state of the country; thus we should be 
a much-reduced party, which might induce the La¬ 
tookas to attack us after his departure. However, it 
was necessary that he should start. I accordingly 
lent him a couple of donkeys to convey his powder, 
in case he should not be able to procure porters. 
After the departure of Ibrahim, the force of his 
party, remaining at Tarrangolle, was reduced to 
