A LONG JOURNEY AND A SHORT STAY. J they should be brought there. After a little trouble in gettingthe little animals upstairs the door was opened and they trotted in to the great amusement of the party; but it was soon discovered that they had an insuperable objection to going down-stdiirs, and as the time was approaching when they were to be taken to the castle their owner was in a fright. Burnaby, however, got over the difificulty by taking- up a pony in each arm and carrying them down to the courtyard. It is needless to enter at length upon the story of Burnaby's travels. Those erratic journeys, though they were prompted by a restless and adventurous disposition, often had a serious purpose, which, perhaps, excused them in the eyes of the commander-in-chief and the authorities, from whom leave of absence from duty was neither asked nor obtained.

Even while he was only a captain, in 1868, he was off to see what could be had in the way of fighting in Spain, Queen Isabella having just made her escape. But there was nothing to be done beyond converting the journey into what used to be called a " spree," including visits to theatres, a bull-fight, and other amusements, and a hasty excursion to Tangiers, where he met with strange company. Two years afterwards he v/as trying to get into Paris, then invested by the Germans, and failing to make his way into the city, took a run through Russia, went to Paris on his way back, and as the commune was then uppermost was arrested and had to use all his ready address to obtain his release and admission to the city, from which he escaped and returned to England. In 1873 he lay for four months at Naples, sick with the deadly typhoid which makes that place one of the most dangerous resorts in Europe. He passed through Spain on his way home, and returned thither in the following year, where he acted as special correspondent of the Times, and took part in the Carlist war, but by the end of the year was on his way to Central Africa to see Gordon. He had no sooner reached this destination and shaken hands with the governor-general than a paragraph in a newspaper, stating that an order had been issued by the Russian government prohibiting foreigners from entering Central Asia, fired his ambition to reach the forbidden territory in spite of the