The women were forced along by their brutal owners with sharp blows of the coorbatch, and one who was far advanced in pregnancy could at length go no further.

Upon this the savage to whom she belonged belabored her with a large stick, and not succeeding in driving her before him, he knocked her down and jumped upon her.

The woman's feet were swollen and bleeding, but later in the day I again saw her hobbling along in the rear by the aid of a bamboo.
After a few days' march we reached Latome, a large Latooka town, and upon our near approach we discovered crowds collected under two enormous trees.

Presently guns fired, drums beat, and we perceived the Turkish flags leading a crowd of about a hundred men, who approached us with the usual salutes, every man firing off ball cartridge as fast as he could reload.

My men were soon with this lot of ragamuffins, and this was the ivory or slave-trading party that they had conspired to join.