NATIVE FONDNESS FOR MEDICINE, expect to meet with much success with the game if he is constantly on the look-out for enemies in the people among whom he is travelling. He wants, when he chooses, to wander out alone some distance from the camp, in pursuit of the object that has taken him to the country, and, when away from his goods and chattels, to feel that both they, and his servants and followers, are tolerably safe from a hostile attack. I think, however, that an Englishman, provided he treats the natives well, and pays proper respect to their prejudices, can go almost anywhere. He must, above all, pay particular deference to the chiefs, and let them see that he regards them as important personages, as in their own country they undoubtedly are ; at the same time, letting them see that he is a person of consequence himself, and expects to be treated accordingly.

A medicine-chest is often of more use to the traveller than a revolver, for nothing gives an African savage greater pleasure than a good dose of medicine ; but it must be a strong one, and rapid in its effects, — none of your half measures with them. A good dose of croton-oil and colicynth, or four or five grains of tartar emetic, is what they like. They hold the European "medicine-man" in great awe and respect. But, although delighting in being physicked internally, they are almost invariably unwilling to submit to the knife. During our first journey in the Soudan, we did more doctoring than on either of our subsequent expeditions. At some places, Cassala, for instance, there were days when as many as two hundred people visited the doctor, who gave away, among other drugs, great quantities of Holloway's pills. These pills we found immensely popular, and we took a good supply with us, in half-pound boxes, on each of our expeditions ; and I should never travel in Africa without a good supply.

Mahomet stood the journey very well, and seemed better