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When we came up I saw Donevan strike the man on the side wit a bamboo: the man fell and rolled on the ground, and afterwards I saw him rise and sit as before. I do not think the blow could have done much hurt, for the man raised himself up. At that time no one but Donevan was with me. Ashford came up astern and the villagers came down to the place.
Ashford asked what was the matter. I asked him the name of the young man, (in whose company I had never been before) and Ashford said Donevan. I said, whoever he is, he has given a man a terrible blow on the side: we then went on, all three together, and I saw one of the Europeans with a sheep on his back about which some of them were going to fight; but I said they had better let it alone. We