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greatest mountain!" It.wag found out later that the,
Shlaf bad mistaken us for. bandit#. :
The Peo Chief waa else aemawhat afraid of the
Tiger. So I bade him leave us whan we were approach-
^ lag the Niger's house.
Four battle towers surrounded the Tiger's mansion.
Isolde the mansion there were vegetable gardens and
pig atl.ee. ^ It was almost, a world by lt##lf^, Mhon
we entered the gates, we were, told to see.th# Pao 5hl#f
If ther#''Was ^ny official transaction, and that the
Tiger would not see Ms*, got we. to force our
way in. *Wb rounded up all the mamMrs of the house-
hold and looked them up in one room. Meanwhile tha
Tiger wa:W* ^#Htloned. about .the number of rifles In ,
_ hla pos8#geioct. He said, he had only hat re-
. fused to surrender it. A seereh was conducted, and ..,;
in one tower alone thirty-three rifles and a quantity .,
of cartridges wr$ found.
Finally #e- brought the ?lger along with us. .'#1#' "
common people were overjoyed when they 'saw th#/?lg#r ' .
under arrest. Bat whan they were asked to help in
carrying the things, only erne farmer volunteered,
while the rest were atlll dominated by f#a.r of the
$lger.^0,_
Roslnger also gives a description of the military power of
the landlords In Klsngau province:
In the northernmost districts of the provlhee,-
those landlord# Owning 10^000 to 20^000 iaow each (one
mow is one-sixth of an acre) usually llvo in amd
. castles with armed guards, and th#ir t#aaat& are seat-
. t#r@d In small village# within a two-mile radios, the
castle acting as a trading centre for the whola 00a-
HMalty.. Some of these big landlords maintain'a
rather large eiwd force, with 30 to 50 riflemen in
addition to those armed with old-fashioned weapons.
Often these forces are not the local tenant peasants.,
but have been recruited, from bands of scattered
troops resulting from civil vara* Against these
armed forced of the big landlords, the District
Magistrates are politically lmpotent.21
White and Jacoby report approximately tM same thing
regarding the landlords and add a few more detail#, showing
2°IM4,., PP. 6-7.
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