"But to resume: Shall we, my countrymen,
suffer this wicked stranger to depart unharmed,
and triumph in his treacherous victory, among
distant communities of the earth? Shall we not
rather compel him to leave his bones here on our
soil, by the side of our slain brother's bones? so
that, while one skeleton shall remain as the ever-
lasting monument of our sorrow, the other shall
endure as long, exhibiting to the whole human
race a terrible example of Pygrny vengeance!
Such is the question. I put it to you in full con-
fidence of a response that shall be worthy of our
national character, and calculated to increase,
rather than diminish, the glory which our ances-
tors have transmitted to us, and which we our-
selves have proudly vindicated in our warfare
with the cranes."

The orator was here interrupted by a burst
of irrepressible enthusiasm; every individual
Pygmy crying out that the national honor must
be preserved at all hazards. He bowed, and
making a gesture for silence, wound up his ha-
rangue in the following admirable manner: --

"It only remains for us, then, to decide wheth-
er we shall carry on the war in our nalionnl

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