About 11 a.m. the main body of the "Jossmen" started to arrive, coming down both banks of the river. ~The leader seemed to be with the party which came down the right bank. He was in a closed chair and was surrounded by guards who paid a good deal of reverence to him. I saw a few old muzzle-loader ¢! but these were, T think, the only firearms. The leader had a flag coloured pink, green, white, black. heliotrope, vertical stripes. with black characters on the white stripe. When they were crossing, the troops, who by now had mustered up sufficient} courage to leave the walled city and were lining the hanks of the Little River, opened fire on them, but, so far as T could see, did not score a single hit.
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This party when it got ashore formed up quietly and then advanced at a jog trot on the soldiers, who then opened a rapid fire. The "Jossmen" simply. waved_ their little flags and advanced. The firing of the soldiers was atrocious, and not until the "Jossmen" had got quite close to them did I see anyone hit. I then saw the chief "Jossman's" chair go down—and then the party broke and fied.
This, I believe, proved the turning point of the whole show, as the sol-
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