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In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
ance of the canoemen pushed our canoe back 
into the water. 1 could not hear what anybody 
said, but as we were hastening away, I saw one 
of the canoemen gesticulating to me and point¬ 
ing toward the bank. I turned and found that a 
number of the robbers were aiming their guns at 
me and 1 heard one of them say, “ Duro, awa yin 
ebon si nyin.” (Stop, or we will shoot you.) 
Resistance being useless, 1 held up my hand in 
token of surrender. Just here, when 1 could see 
no way of escape, God sent us a deliverance as 
strange as it was sudden. Before the prow of 
the canoe touched the bank, some of the Parra- 
quoi women, who had been watching the fight 
from the top of the bluff, ran pell-mell down the 
steep descent and seized the guns in the hands 
of the robbers, while others above besought us, 
both by words and gestures, to hurry away. 
The men whirled the women through the air, 
round and round, and even thrashed them 
against the ground, but could not break their 
hold. So plucky were they that my wife seemed 
to forget her fears in admiration of their courage 
and cried out, “Look at the women 1 Look at 
the women! ” 
While the men were cursing and yelling, be¬ 
cause they could not release their guns, and the 
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