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He accordingly sent natives as spies, with specious messages to the Umiro, announcing his intention of visiting them to purchase ivory. With a party increased by volunteers from other stations to a force of about 300 men, he arrived at Umiro. The simple natives received him gladly, and showed extreme hospitality. The country was thickly populated, and abounded with vast herds of the finest cattle.
After a week's sojourn among the Umiro, during which he had received large presents of elephants' tusks, and seventy head of oxen from the confiding natives, the treacherous ruffian gave an order to his brigands at sunset.
This fellow had waited upon my orders daily since my arrival at Fatiko. At the death of the former vakeel of Fatiko, Ali Hussein had succeeded to the command of the station. He had arranged to make a descent upon the Umiro tribe, about six days' march to the south-east.
This was a wounded man of their own people, the only survivor of all those who had left the main body on that morning. The Bari described, that the Umiro, having gained information of the intended attack, had lain in ambush within high withered grass, in which they had awaited the arrival of their assailants.
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