352 THE “PLEASANT ROBBER » KILLED . [chap. ix. 
the roll of their drum, mingled with,the lowing of 
oxen and the bleating of sheep. Upon nearer approach, 
I remarked a considerable body of men, and a large 
herd of cattle and sheep driven by a number of 
Latookas, while a knot of Turks carried something 
heavy in their arms. They soon arrived, with about 
2,000 head of cattle and sheep; but they had lost one 
of their men, killed in the fight, and his body they 
carried home for interment. It happened to be about 
the best man of the party; really a very civil fellow, 
and altogether rather a pleasant robber. At Com- 
moro’s instigation, the Turks had attacked the town of 
Kay ala; but the Latookas had fought so well, that the 
Turks found it impossible to capture the town, which 
was, as usual, protected by iron-wood palisades, upon 
which their bullets harmlessly flattened. Not only 
the Latooka men had fought well, but their women 
broke up their grinding-stones and defended the 
entrance by pelting their assailants with the frag¬ 
ments ; several of the Turks were wounded by the 
stones thrown with such force by these brawny Ama¬ 
zons that some of the gun-barrels were indented. 
Many of these brave women had been shot by the 
dastardly Turks, and one was in the act of being 
carried off by the “ pleasant robber,” when a native, 
running to her rescue, drove his spear through his 
