A HAILSTORM, 63 displeasing to him, it should in no way affect our personal relations ! | | In a long and very interesting visit which I paid to Kabréga on the 5th of October, I received a detailed account of all the events that happened during Baker's visit, a curiously different account from that given in “Ismailia.” The conversation turned upon a hundred various topics. As the sky was again overclouded, I withdrew atter four hours’ chat, and had hardly time to reach home before the storm broke over us. Although I suffered considerably during my fourteen days residence here on account of the torrents of rain which fell three or four times daily—which state of things, according to the report of the inhabitants, will last till November—I have never in all my hfe -experienced such an uproar as this storm. A deep darkness enveloped the land, now and then streaked by blue hghtning, and, whipped by the raging south-east wind, hail and rain came beating down, the hailstones being as large as horse-beans. After continuing for half an hour, the hail gave place to a true deluge of rain, and until late in the night it still continued raining steadily. During the hailstorm (§.45 P.M.) the thermometer registered 64.4° Fahr.; the aneroid 25.65 in. At seven o'clock in the evening the thermometer stood at 66.2° Fahr.; the aneroid at 25.70 in. All our huts were full of water, and the next two days were occupied in repairing them.

I received visits daily from Kabréga’s chiefs, amongst whom Katagrua and Melindua were two really pleasant, sensible men. As regards the former, I have pleasure in being able to confirm what Baker said of him, namely, that he was the only gentleman at Kabréga’s court; not once did he request a single thing from me, and he received with signs of the greatest eratitude the little presents | was able to make him. I[ am indebted to both these men for much valuable information concerning the life and customs of Unyéro.

On the 30th of September I was just preparing to utilise a pause in the rain by taking a walk, when I was called to Kabréga; whom I found sitting on his divan enveloped in a barkcloth of beautiful pattern. People from Kardgwa had arrived, bringing with them arms and ammunition, to be exchanged for ivory and slaves, and Kabréga wished to show his white guest