Upto August the 13th none of these had been molested; the old Prefect had died, and the Governor had sent a new man in full sympathy with his own awful designs, "Two days after his arrival the new Prefect demanded of the local official why the foreigners had not been driv: out, saying that in all other places they had been forced away. The magistrate replied that these Americans were peaceable and kindly disposed peuple, and that he had had no occasion to send them awa: The Prefect insisted that they should within two days; the District Magistrate under the compulsion of his superior then sent over and arrested the chief dispenser of the hospital, who was beaten with three hundred blows, and was then ordered to secure all the arms in the mission. These were accordingly given up—owo pistols, and two rifles or gaus.
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