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THE TURKS MURDER A NATIVE. 
[chap. IX. 
announced that he was a native of Kayala than the 
Turks declared he was a spy, and condemned him to 
be shot. The two chiefs, Moy and Commoro, feeling 
themselves compromised by having brought the man 
into such danger unwittingly, threw themselves before 
him, and declared that no harm should befall him, as 
he belonged to them. Tearing them away by the 
combined force of many men, the prisoner was imme¬ 
diately bound, and led forth by his bloodthirsty 
murderers to death. “ Shoot the spy was hardly 
pronounced, when a villain stepped forward, and 
placing the muzzle of his musket close to his left 
breast, he fired. The man dropped dead, thus mur¬ 
dered in cold blood. The natives rushed in crowds 
from the spot, naturally supposing that a general 
massacre would follow so unprovoked an outrage. 
The body was dragged by the heels a few paces 
outside the camp, and the vultures were its sextons 
within a few minutes of the death. 
It was with difficulty that I could restrain my 
temper under such revolting circumstances. I felt 
that at an unlooked-for moment I might be compro¬ 
mised in some serious outbreak of the natives, caused 
by the brutal acts of the traders. Already it was 
declared unsafe to venture out shooting without ten or 
twelve armed men as escort. 
