CHAP. V.] 
INTERVIEW WITH COMMORO. 
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I immediately sent to the house of the chief, and 
requested his attendance. There were two chiefs, 
brothers; Moy was the greater in point of rank, 
but his brother, Commoro, had more actual autho¬ 
rity with the people. I was glad that the latter 
appeared. 
I sent to request an interpreter from the Turks, and 
upon his arrival I asked Commoro why the women 
and children had been removed ? He replied, “ That 
the Turks were so brutal that he could not pre¬ 
vail upon his people to endure it any longer; their 
women were robbed and beaten, and they were all so 
ill-treated, that he, as their chief, had no longer any 
control over them; and that the odium of having 
introduced the Turks to Latooka was thrown upon 
him.” I asked him whether any of my men had 
misbehaved. I explained that I should flog any one 
of my men who should steal the merest trifle from 
his people, or insult any women. All my men were 
in dark-brown uniforms. He said, “ That none of the 
men with the brown clothes had been complained of, 
but that his people had taken a dislike to all strangers, 
owinsf to the conduct of the Turks, and that he could 
not answer for the consequences.” There was a divi¬ 
sion among his own people, some wishing to fight and 
to serve the Turks as the Latookas had served the 
