Last year the 10-mile zone was careful-y surveyed by a party of RE, sent here for the purpose. This spring surveying has been resumed, operations being extended to the neutral zone, i.¢., all territory lying East of 121.° 40'. At a place some forty miles away called Kékia (BR), some trouble arose"'recently with the villagers. 'The native story, which is given for what it is worth, is that the Engineers camped graveyard, trampled their ' wheat fields, and' cut down' their trees, Their expostulations met only with abuse from the interpreter; words then' proceeded to blows, anald man got beaten; the villagers gathered' thémeelves together with such arns a9 they could Gnd and surrounded the surveying party and their escort, a party of the R Me Lo Z, which as sine' Geen infareed." The interpreter's account differs considerably. ""He has it that the trouble arose from some Invwless people, never ameniible to authority, who desired to drive the foreigners out, lest they should be deprived of their lands—a much less credible tale, though obviously' better calculated to justify the interpreter, who is said to be held as' culpable in' fault by both sides, though he has not so fat been superseded.
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