Edwardsville Spectator

War in Africa.—Sanguinary contests often occur among the natives of Africa, waged frequently from no other motive than to make captives, which the victorious party sell to the slave traders on the coast. We find it stated in the Sierra Leone Gazette of the 25th of June, that an engagement had taken place between considerable force of the Sherbro Bullom, and a strong party of Kusses, in which the former were completely routed, with the loss of 47 killed and 27 made prisoners.

who had entrenched themselves on an island on the Deong river, called Peypurra, near a small town of the same name. It appears that the Sherbro chiefs, with the Caulkers at their head, have been a long time mustering their forces for this attack, while the Kussoos have latterly contented themselves in fortifying their post at Peypurra, with the determination of making a stand there during the rainy season. The Bulloms, who were sanguine of success, were repulsed with great slaughter; having failed in their attempt to break through the barricade, while the inhabitants of a town in their rear, upon whom they depended for assistance, turned against them, and cut off a great number of their party. Some hundreds of lives had been lost, and a large supply of victims for the slave market have thus been obtained.