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About eventide on the day when the others had again gone off, and by moonlight they assembled together on the open space between the huts,^[1] and debated among one another, and determined when they would kill me. Placing me also between them they derided and threatened me. I was sad, and looked at the moon, and thought to myself, "O my Lord and my God, assist me through this peril to a peaceful end!" Then they asked me why I so constantly looked at the moon: Then I said to them: "I see by her aspect that she is angry." For the face which is in the moon, appeared even to me to be so terrible (God forgive me this!) that I thought myself, that God and all creatures must be angry with me. Thereupon the king who was to have me killed, called Jeppipo Wasu, one of the kings of the huts, asked me, with whom is the moon angry? I said, "she looks towards thy huts." For these words he began to speak angrily to me. In order to recall the words, I said, "It will not be thy huts, she is angry with the Carios slaves," (which is also the name of a savage tribe). "Yes," said he, "upon them fall every misfortune, so be it." I thought no further about this.

The following day news came from a village called Mambukabe, that the Tuppin Ikins, when they had departed from where I lay imprisoned, had attacked it, and that the inhabitants had fled, except a little boy, whom they had