The Battle Commenced, He Stated, By The One Side
Abusing The Other For Their Deeds During That Rebellion, The
Rebels In This Sort Of Contest Proving Themselves The Stronger.
But he, heading the royalist party, soon reduced them to order,
though only for a short while, as from
That point they turned
round to open mutiny for more rations; and some of the rebels
tried to kill him, which, he said, they would have done had he
not settled the matter by buying some cows for them. It was on
this account he had been obliged to open my loads. And now he
had told me the case, he hoped I would forgive him if he had done
wrong. Now, the real facts of the case were these - though I did
not find them out at the time: - Baraka had bought some slaves
with my effects, and he had had a fight with some of my men
because they tampered with his temporary wife - a princess he had
picked up in Phunze. To obtain her hand he had given ten
necklaces of MY beads to her mother, and had agreed to the
condition that he should keep the girl during the journey; and
after it was over, and he took her home, he would, if his wife
pleased him, give her mother ten necklaces more.
Next day Baraka told me his heart shrank to the dimensions of a
very small berry when he saw whom I had brought with me
yesterday - meaning Bombay, and the same porters whom he had
prevented going on with me before.
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