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and strike a woman, whom I have employed”. The prisoner then was going to strike Ramazani, and he lifted up the same stick for the purpose, but Ramazani seized the stick: the prisoner said to him: “If you do not let go the stick, I will strike you with a knife”. He then drew his knife – I was near enough to see it, and I did see it: it was a large knife about a foot long, including its handle. The handle was white. I had seen it in his girdle, when he came in. It was such a knife as Classy’s usually carry: I have seen many Classys and know, that they usually have such knives, though some Classys have them not. I do not know that the prisoner was a Classy, or what was his occupation.
When we started back a little distance from the Prisoner, Ramzanny let go the stick and said he was stabbed. I did not see the Prisoner
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