Usages Of War

-A French officer employedin África, writes to his commander: We arrived at day break at Melil-Douar, the centre of the tribe and of a very rkh and wcll peopled country. AU this portion of country was rasaetd. by my troops, not a villugc nor a house escapad the Jlames: about 6000 cattle, 10 or 12,O00 sheep, 100 pcisoners, and a great numbrr of mules charged with very rieh packnges, werè ..brought in by the detachment."