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should these resist, he could lead on and extort barbarian troops against them, seize, flog, and imprison (their people): he would also, upon the plea that they had infringed the sight regulations imprison the inhabitants wrongfully and extort money from them. The whole population were in a state of exasperation not to be appeased. The Portuguese barbarians of the soil too, by Amaral's levying contributions on them, making short issues of pay and rations to the troops, and having criminal intercourse with their women, all spoke of revenge. The graves of six of the prisoner's ancestors having been levelled by the making of a road which Amaral was having made, he cherished in his heart a feeling of resentment, and conceived the idea of watching his opportunity to put an end to the evil by the murder of Amaral. On the 22d August, having heard it rumoured by some of the barbarians of the soil that in the afternoon Amaral would go to the Barrier gate accompanied by but few persons, he concealed on his person a pointed knife, and waited by the side of the road leading thither until the hour of 5 o'clock p.m., when Amaral rode by. The prisoner, who saw him behind, took advantage of his being off his guard to drag him off his horse, pulled out the dagger he carried about him, cut off his head and also one arm. Amaral died immediately, and the prisoner then took his head and arm and sacrificed to his ancestors, announcing (to them what he had done). He now absconded; and orders having been issued to make inquiry for him, and to seek and apprehend him, in fear of his life he...