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 The guilty author of his woe. The trembling women who had been Powerless condemned to view the scene, Yet awed by memory of their fears With converse mingled frequent tears. Two gloomy warriors from the wood To Mytah, fierce and sudden, strode; Dismayed, Muntookan's form she viewed And fled, but swiftly they pursued: The rest, as clouds by winds are shattered, As kangaroos by dogs are scattered, For safety tried each well-known path Intent to shun the spoiler's wrath: And, fearful of Muntookan's force, Ntone knew, none guessed his homeward course.

Ere yet the tale was at an end Koreungat stood beside his friend;— "Moyarra! this a time for grief! While Mytah's woes demand relief? Know'st thou Muntookan for the foe Who claims thy bride and dooms thy woe?