y father sometimes worked on his own land, and
used to make charcoal. I was too little to work; my eldest brother used to
work on the land; and we were all very happy.

A great many people, whom we called Adinyes, set fire to Egie in the
morning before daybreak; there were some thousands of them. They killed a
great many, and burnt all their houses. They staid two days, and then
carried away all the people whom they did not kill.

They came again every now and then for a month, as long as they could find
people to carry away. They used to tie them by the feet, except when they
were taking them off, and then they let them loose; but if they offered to
run away, they would shoot them. I lost a great many friends and relations
at Egie; about a dozen. They sold all they carried away, to be slaves. I
know this because I afterwards saw them as slaves on the other side of the
sea. They took away brothers, and sisters, and husbands, and wives; they
did not care about this. They were sold for cloth or gunpowder, sometimes
for salt or guns; sometimes they got four or five guns for a man: they
were English guns, made like my master's that I clean for his shooting.
The Adinyes burnt a great many places besides Egie. They burnt all the
country wherever they found villages; they used to shoot men, women, and
children, if they ran away.

They came to us about eleven o'clock one day, and directly they came they
set our house on fire. All of us had run away. We kept together, and went
into the woods, and stopped there two days. The Adinyes then went away,
and we returned home and found every thing burnt. We tried to build a
little shed, and were beginning to get comfortable again. We found
several of our neighbours lying about wounded; they had been shot. I saw
the bodies of four or five little children whom they had killed with blows
on the head. They had carried away their fathers and mothers, but the
children were too small for slaves, so they killed them. They had killed
several others, but these were all that I saw. I saw them lying in the
street like dead dogs.

In about a week after we got back, the Adinyes returned, and burnt all the
sheds and houses they had left standing. We all ran away again; we went to
the woods as we had done before.--They followed us the next day. We went
farther into the woods, and staid there about four days and nights; we
were half starved; we only got a few potatoes. My uncle Otou was with us.
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