Robbers Were Stated To Be Lurking About, And Therefore They Conceived It Prudent, If Not Absolutely Necessary, To Take Every Precaution For The Safety Of The Mission, They, Therefore, Loaded Their Own Guns And Pistols, And Armed All Their Men With Swords And Muskets.

Their Jenna messengers being unacquainted with the new route, the governor of Coosoo had furnished them with two armed

Foot guides, whose weapons were bows and arrows, besides a horseman, armed at all points, to bring up the rear of the party. With all these warlike preparations and equipments, a few harmless women, who were terrified at the appearance of the travellers, were the only individuals whom they met with on the path during a ride of two hours, which brought them to a town called Acboro. The town itself was very small, but its dilapidated walls, which enclose an immense extent of ground, would lead the observer to suppose, that it was formerly of much greater magnitude. Within the walls, were three granite hills, two on one side, and the other on the opposite side of the town. All their bases were of solid stone, but their summits consisted of loose blocks, from the interstices of which, trees and stunted vegetation shot forth. Besides these hills, immense masses of granite rock were seen piled upon each other in different parts. On the whole, Acboro was one of the wildest and most venerable looking places that the human mind could conceive; the habitations of the people alone, lessening that romantic and pleasing effect, which a first sight of it produces.

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