SERUB. 201 Suleiman Bey. He was well received by him, and advanced to an important position. After this came the war, and Idris Bey's son was taken prisoner by Suleiman, who at the close of the war, when he was getting hopeless, ordered the son to be shot. The evening before the day fixed for his execution, Idris Bey's son saw Serur, and said to him, " Serur, will you see the son of the man whose bread you have eaten for so many years, die ? I know he treated you badly, but forgive it and save me." Serur's good-nature got the better of the feelings of revenge which had filled his heart, so he consented to try to release Idris's son. At night he made the prisoner's guards drunk, and then both escaped, for Serur dare not stay to meet the storm which would have fallen upon him. The next morning, when Suleiman discovered what had happened, the guards were flogged to death, and a strong party sent after the fugitives, but they had made good their escape. Serur, however, lost his all in thus rescuing his old master's son.

One afternoon, while I was at Dem Suleiman, I had a fearful case to treat. A young woman, about seventeen, had been met in the forest by a dongolowee, who wanted to take from her a small cloth about a yard long and two feet broad ; on her refusing to give it up, he drew his dagger and attacked her so furiously, that though the poor girl made a gallant resistance, he was too much for her, and