water that you should drink it ? Give us beads !" Or agaiii, did we want a chicken, then we had to pay for it, and in accordance with the custom of the country we would give in exchange a piece of copper of the same length as the chicken's beak.

At this time my troops were 12,000 in number: of these I stationed 8,000 at Sabunga, while the rest were distributed in divers places, in bodies of fifty, a hundred, or a hundred and fifty : thus some were put at Baia, others at Bunut, Abu Dinga (in the district that you English wrongly call the Congo) and elsewhere.

In those days I had occasion to despatch Nur Angara, uith six others, to hunt elephants. For ten days they indulged in the chase, but success attended not their efforts. Then, when the tenth night was now half spent, Nur Angara met with a strange adventure, for, when he was desirous of turning over he found that he had no power to do so by reason of the excessive heat of his leg : moreover it was as though thee was something pressing against it. In an extremity of fear and anguish he called to his companions that they should see what had befallen : then they gathered round and behold ! a python of hideous aspect had swallowed his leg. They were in the predicament of the lost, and knew not what to do : were they to spear the python, they might, at the same time, spear the leg.