Cast Among Robbers 
other robbers were kept back from the river by 
the Parraquoi men, I took the advice of the 
women above us and escaped. The brawl¬ 
ing continued as long as we were in hearing, 
being sometimes emphasized by the report of 
guns. We seemed to be pursued for a while, 
but I did not see any one, only heard a call be¬ 
hind us. I do not know how many were hurt, 
but I learned from the missionary at Abeokuta 
that the chief of the Parraquoi was killed. 
The sun had already gone down when we 
escaped, and soon it was intensely dark. To 
guard against floating obstructions, as great 
trees, I stretched myself, with hands extended, 
on the prow of the canoe. We met with no 
accident during the remainder of the night, but 
the hideous bellowings of great crocodiles in the 
inky blackness greatly disturbed my already 
nervous wife. Several times we saw lights 
and heard voices on shore, but we went swiftly 
and silently by without getting again into 
trouble. Hearing the nine o’clock gun at Lagos, 
we knew we were in the boundaries of the Eng¬ 
lish “protectorate” at that time, and we felt 
secure enough to stop and wait until the moon 
rose. 
Next morning, just as the sun rose in all its 
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