ROAD TO FOWEIRA. 331 the life led by the professors of Christianity is the thing which teaches most; and how can a man inveigh against the evils of polygamy unless he can show to the natives the possibility of living with one wife ?

After spending a pleasant hour and a half with Amfina we retired at sunset to our huts, hoping to prepare ourselves by a long night's rest for the march to Foweira. We were cheated out of this by the natives making such frightful noises, that sleep was an impossibility.

From Amfina's seriba the road to Foweira was through a dense jungle ; the high reeds and the thick tiger-grass made marching exceedingly difficult and fatiguing. Dead trunks of trees lay rotting across the path, and we often got our feet entangled in the creepers which grow so luxuriantly, and give great trouble to the unsuspecting traveller. In Africa it is needful to be always on the look-out, and to walk warily, for danger lurks on all sides. It is out of the question to ride ; the venturesome wight who attempts this daring feat soon finds that his donkey has a knack of stumbling among the many impediments; and while the rider, to his great disgust, finds himself and his saddle in an inglorious position on the ground, the donkey wanders on, usually away from the path, and probably gets stuck in a swamp. The rescue of the animal, and the raising up of the bruised and indignant rider, of course,