The firing proved a mistake--the result of a false alarm--so the night passed without any other _alerte_ or disturbance, and all remained quiet during the temporary halt at Prahsu; but the troops heard of many strange things as occurring at Coomassie, all deemed by the natives portentous of its coming fate. In its market-place--that scene of daily blood and murder--where the predecessor of King Koffee devoted three thousand victims 'to water the grave' of his mother--an aërolite fell, to the terror of the people; but there came still a greater prodigy. A child was born which instantly began to converse, and, to prevent it having intercourse with supernatural visitors, it was placed alone in…
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