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When they were really in earnest to
engage into a fight they generally
tried to hide it from me lest I should
manage to prevent it. When coming in sight
of each other they usually commence
challenging each & to defy each other
calling out:
[insert] Their terms of challenge & defiance
remind one
of Goliath
of old
when
so scornfully
we are only David
ready to meet you we are not afraid
of [word crossed out] you. We shall soon beat
you. & c &
They gradually get very much excited
and really are or profess to be
very angry. At length the wamara begin
to fly. Some they let fly high up in the
air above their enemies heads. [words crossed out]
[words crossed out] they do this in a very clever
way so that they twirl round and
fall on their enemies heads. By this
means the attention of the opposing [word crossed out]
party is diverted, so that they have to
look upwards & forwards whilst one Womara