As near as our alphabet can convey them, they ran thus:-- "Dangkarree Au fey, Oluu werrei, Au lay," which may be rendered almost literally by the following couplet:-- Air by the chief: "Come to plunder, come to slay;" Chorus of followers: "We are ready to obey." 'About three o'clock in the morning their war-song (highly characteristic of a predatory tribe) became very loud, and they commenced uttering their war-cry.

This is different from what we conceive the Indian war-whoop to be: it seems to be a kind of imitation of the growl of wild beasts, and has a most thrilling effect.
'Fire now was set to a quantity of huts built for the accommodation of African soldiers to the northward of the barracks, as well as to the house of a poor black woman called Dalrymple.

These burnt briskly, throwing a dismal glare over the barracks and picturesque town of San Josef, and overpowering the light of the full moon, which illumined a cloudless sky.

The mutineers made a rush at the barrack-room, and seized on the muskets and fusees in the racks.

Their leader, Daaga, and a daring Yarraba named Ogston instantly charged their pieces; the former of these had a quantity of ball- cartridges, loose powder, and ounce and pistol-balls, in a kind of gray worsted cap.