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. The people stood at the doors of their huts, but Mansong lifted high his javelin, and it to the heart of the leader of the Moorish , who fell dead upon the plain.

The Moors were determined to resent this outrage, they termed it, and sent back the javelin; the  was good, and Mansong fell to the ground,  in his blood. The inhabitants set up a loud, and the Moors drove off. Mansong was to his father's hovel upon the shoulders of his. When they had conveyed him to his, and laid him upon a mat, all the spectators in lamenting his fate, by screaming and  in a most piteous manner. Onowauhee his hair in the bitterness of his grief; and  himself on the cold body of his son, expired  sight of his bewildered spectators!

Mansong was not, however, deprived of life. The had pierced his breast, and a great effusion  blood succeeded. This occasioned a fainting fit, which he shortly recovered. The astonished made frantic gestures in token of their joy,, being of the Mahometan persuasion, exclaimed, " ifla et ella Mahomet rasowl allabi."—"There  but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet."

Our hero was soon perfectly recovered, and to revenge the death of his father, whom  for a long time bewailed in the bitterness of filial. He collected his countrymen, and exhorted to rush upon the Moors and repair the losses  daily sustained; but thothe [sic] people of Simbing  not be prevailed on.

The fiery soul of Mansong was not to be defeated a cool refusal. Another opportunity soon itself; he then pictured to them the horrors  calamities they were daily exposed to, and again