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from their pah, and blazed away at us like one o'clock. But we were too quick for them, managing to kill at least half a dozen of them, two of our men only being wounded. both through the leg severely, not a friendly native was hit. Our people evidently thought it quite a victory, for they danced the war dance both that night and the next morning. Scarcely half an hour after they had finished the War dance, we heard a rumor that the enemy were crossing the river and that the scous were running back on my heading and finally going myself to see if it were true, I saw a large