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did not wish to risk offending during liis absence, by a more 
extensive sale. Our boys expressing a desire for meat, we killed 
the smaller of the two cattle purchased so dearly at Indala’s, 
and held a feast, resting for the day, That night we were much 
troubled by mosquitoes, now beginning to be active as the warm 
weather was coming on. 
