Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-14

sword, pistol, or some other sort of weapon calcu-
lated to disarrange Whoora corporal mechanisms
Equipped for week in the bush the expedition sailed
the lake and up the Muree River, and nghtfa
found camped many miles from home in village
which had been abruptly abandoned by its frightened
inhabitants.
hurrying down the river hailed and from him
cleaned hearsay evidence the probable location of
the junior Mooraballyma and his band of warriors
Six hours padding up stream would take us to
tributary creek which could follow to newly built
barricaded town, where the bloodthirsty savage
taking few days layof from his sangunary pleasures
Two hours farther inland the town of the mortifer
uncle, where dwet the cunning mind that pre-
sumably directing this slaughter. .;s...
Knowing that the Whooras did their fighting only
at night we had hesitation going right into their
country in daytime, and l knew that if we got into
their town there would be trouble because of the
fear with which they looked upon the white mans
methods. They had all learned of the ways of the
English, Germans and Portuguese and had no desire
to incur their enmity arouse them to beligerency;
for they knew that war with one of these peoples
meant their extermination
Hence, K1euth, Won Charant, and myself were in
favor of immediate march upon the citadel of the
enemy, and we accordingly each took canoe and
headed the naval parade toward that burg followed by
a dozen others containing the Ethiopian members of
invading party.
Two hours up the river native prone
the bank and hallooed to him; but got response
Pulling to shore, discovered that he dead and
decked out in his war toys His tattoo markings and
warpaint proclaimed him Whoora, and he had a.
Having we'll grounded suspicious that my "A rifle was
not far from this vicinity, it apparent to that
Seefasdav WhooraCide
suggested that we look around and see if we could
find any other evidences of trouble, and hardly had
taken dozen steps into the bush before cry from
of the told of another find; then another and an
other until after thorough search we had seven
bodies list. Each of these last six had been
found lying face down. shot through the head from
behind with a rifle ball of large caliber. T.
This peculiar coincidence of wounds seemed to puzzle
our folk; but to me the solution was very simple
When the first in the advancing file had been shot
the rest of the party had fallen prone and crawling
into the bush, their custom in fighting. The
foliage of the concealed the with the gun and
also hid the smoke from the rife; he encountered
opposition he sat perced in the branches and rap
idly picked off the entire squad of Whooras they
wormed their way through the grass.
Boarding the Lion
T EAVING the dead men where we had found them,
we hurried the river passed into the tributary
stream stopped for short dinner and about three in
the afternoon to a village surrounded by
newly built barricade. Half dozen heads popped up
along the barricade and of them demanded to
know who and what wanted. Through one
of our who spoke their dialect we informed the
inquirer who we we're, that we we're not Liberian