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effort on my part to save her, she died three days 
afterwards. Swasuri was much affected by this sad 
occurrence, and on my questioning her as to her 
future plans, declared that now she had lost her 
mother, she would prefer to stay in my camp 
with my men’s 
wives until her 
father returned 
from the Golam- 
bepo Mountains, 
for she feared 
that Mataka’s 
men would pay 
her native village 
another visit ere 
long. Then, 
when her father 
came back, she 
would endeavour 
to persuade him 
to leave this part 
of the country 
and make his 
home in German territory, where they would be 
safe from the further attentions of these inhuman 
raiders. One of the boys, who expressed a desire 
to enter my service, I engaged ; the other returned 
safely to his village. 
SWASURI. 
