Opening Battles around Ejahyay 
the field. It was very touching to see the little 
ones wipe the tears from each other’s eyes as they 
wept. There was also great sorrow in the Egbar 
or Abeokuta camp, and trumpets were wailing all 
night calling the names of the missing in the 
hope that they might be hid in the “bush” and 
be directed by the sound to the camp. All the 
officers and chiefs who were taken alive, if recog¬ 
nized, had been immediately slain; but the other 
prisoners were either redeemed by their rich 
friends or sold as slaves. 
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