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Title: History of the colored race in America : containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa ... the origin and development of slavery in the Old World, and its introduction on the American continent : the slave trade : slavery ... : the Civil War, emancipation, education and advancement of the colored race ...
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Alexander, William T
Subjects: Blacks African Americans Slavery
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Palmetto Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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found several women,who refused to follow them and were killed. The men on thesummit of the mountains rolled down masses of stone andlogs of wood upon their enemies. They dashed hither andthither with surprising agility. The Turks compared them tobirds, for their feet hardly seemed to touch the surface of therocks. Many of them hurled their lances from behind treesor masses of granite, and pierced the first troops who ascendedthe hill. Meanwhile the Pasha, tired of the prolonged resist-ance, mounted the hill with seven of his Mamelukes and someAlbanians, but soon had reason to repent his imprudence.The Negroes suddenly sallied out of their retreat, and hurledtheir lances, killing one of the Mamelukes. After firing avolley into them, the Pasha returned to the camp. By thistime the Negroes had cast away all their lances and soughtsafety in flight. One-fourth of them escaped, and the rest^ere captured. In this battle the Pasha had twelve men killed r> H d > H QO c
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ANCIENT AND MODERN LIFE IN AFRICA. 105 and forty wounded; of the Negroes one hundred and eightywere killed and five hundred and seventy-five taken prisoners..The latter had crisp hair, thick lips, and prominent cheekbones; a few of them had flat noses. The men wore only apiece of goat skin tied round their loins, and the women apiece of cotton which reached to the middle of the thigh.There were none among them who understood Arabic. ThePasha allowed me to take two who appeared intelligent andgood tempered, and an Arab of Fazogl, who knew a little oftheir language, served me as interpreter. After a rest of three days the army resumed its march. Onthe 26th, it entered a narrow, rocky valley, on either side ofwhich were many deserted villages. The Pasha determined toput himself at the head of the expedition, and asked Cailliaudto accompany him. The latter excused himself on account ofhis fatigued dromedary, but the offer of a horse obliged himto accept, and having armed himself to the te

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