frontiersmen, and the British obliged to retreat, their enemies
following them for several miles.

Some of the officers commanding the troops were killed, and all of them
were wounded.

Mr. Gee had been sent to the frontier to fix the site for a new outpost
or fort, and to collect fines that had been imposed on the frontiersmen
for past misconduct.

The Waziris, as the tribe is called, did not like Mr. Gee's mission, and
so lay in wait for his party, and, when it entered the valley, poured
down from the hills on all sides and in great numbers.

Great Britain will send out an expedition to punish the Waziris, but it
is expected that it will take some severe fighting to overcome these
natives.

They are a powerful tribe which can muster about forty thousand fighting
men. They are strong, hardy, and well versed in the use of rifles, and
are constantly fighting the other tribes around them, so that they are
always ready for war.

Their country extends over a vast tract of land, and they are a very
formidable people.

England cannot allow her representatives to be attacked by these people
without punishing them, and however severe the task may be, it is
necessary to give the Waziris a good lesson.