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a fight actually occur, would be certain to behave as 
cowards. The Latookas would make no distinction 
between me and them, in the event of an attack, as 
they would naturally class all strangers and new 
comers with the hated Turks. 
It was about 5 p.m. one hour before sunset. The 
woman who usually brought us water delivered her jar, 
but disappeared immediately after without sweeping 
the courtyard as was her custom. Her children who 
usually played in this enclosure had vanished. On 
searching her hut, which was in one corner of the yard, 
no one was to be found, and even the grinding-stone 
was gone. Suspecting that something was in the wind, 
I sent Karka and Gaddum Her, the two black servants, 
to search in various huts in the neighbourhood to 
observe if the owners were present, and whether the 
women were in their houses. Not a woman could be 
found. Neither woman nor child remained in the 
large town of Tarrangolle. There was an extraordinary 
stillness where usually all was noise and chattering. 
All the women and children had been removed to the 
mountains about two miles distant, and this so quickly 
and noiselessly that it appeared incredible. 
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 authority 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 fiog any one 
