100 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

proved to be their war-cry, though we did not take it to he such, so different was it to any war-cry we had hitherto heard. We went up the creek at a great rate, intending to run the boat on the beach, but in order to do this we had to make two tacks across the creek, and this happily checked her speed. As we neared the beach the order was given to lower the sails, and at this instant the man on the look-out called " Eocks on the port bow," so the boat was brought sharply round and ran broadside on to the beach. As the keel grounded on the sand we were greeted with a volley of arrows, stones, and spears, and the whole of the crew, who were stowing the main and mizen sails, threw themselves down in the boat, with the exception of one man, who seized an oar and pushed her bows out. Not a moment was to be lost if we were to escape with our lives, for the natives were running up, and would have speared the crew as they lay in the bottom of the boat ; so I snatched up an oar, jumped up on the stern sheets, and with a vigorous push sent the Daisy out into the water. Just at that moment, a man standing about thirty yards off fired an arrow at me, which struck me on the upper part of the left arm, and remained in the wound. I threw down the oar and pulled out the arrow, which proved to be a poisoned one. I turned round to tell Smith, and for the first time saw that he had been wounded too, for the blood was pouring down his face from a wound over