The scarcity is not the only foe. The wolf at the door also takes the form of armed desperadoes who literally prowl everywhere; as I write there is a continuous firing of guns as if in a skirmish. This is kept up all night during dark nights. Its object is to let others know that some one is awake. Perhaps a night never passes that there are not some; robberies somewhere in the district. The magistrate took a number of soldiers and wear to review the condition of the district in the north. Beand his company ran on a body of desperadoes and in a skirmish which lasted about haifa day, three men were captured, three were Killed, one of the soldiers wounded, and one of the officers killed.
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