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He further promised that if the Paupaus and the Yarrabas would follow him, he would fight his way back to Guinea.
'Donald Stewart, or rather Daaga, was the adopted son of Madershee, the old and childless king of the tribe called Paupaus, a race that inhabit a tract of country bordering on that of the Yarrabas. These races are constantly at war with each other.
The Paupau then levelled his musket and shot the fallen soldier, who groaned and died. The war-yells, or rather growls, of the Paupaus and Yarrabas now became awfully thrilling, as they helped themselves to cartridges: most of them were fortunately blank, or without ball. Never was a premeditated mutiny so wild and ill planned.
He also informed me that he believed in predestination; at least he said that Holloloo, he knew, had ordained that he should come to white man's country and be shot. 'Daaga, having made a successful predatory expedition into the country of the Yarrabas, returned with a number of prisoners of that nation. These he, as usual, took, bound and guarded, towards the coast to sell to the Portuguese.
Only one man was wounded amongst the militia, and he but slightly, from a small stone fired from a musket of one of the Yarrabas. 'The quantity of ammunition expended by the mutineers, and the comparatively little mischief done by them, was truly astonishing. It shows how little they understood the use of firearms.
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