Havoc among the Etiropeans.

77 was composed of soldiers, formerly mercenaries of Agat, who had taken service in the regular army. The governor was a certain man named Walleduille (formerly Vekil of the same Agat) of gigantic size ; he seemed to be made on purpose to hunt down men. I never saw a countenance so manifestly expressive of cruelty and perfidy.

Having given the necessary orders, we left this haunt of wolves, and took our way to Gondokoro ; but the pilot, not knowing the river well, steered the vessel into a branch of it,' so narrow and winding that the prow touched the ground at least forty times. The water was deep, but the banks so near together that the poor captain did not know how to extricate himself, and every moment the crew had to get on land ; it was a real martyrdom. Next day, thank God, Ave got out of this, and were once more in the principal stream. The water here Avas Ioaa', and the A'essel ran aground once or tAvice, but on September 2nd Ave finally arrived at Gondokoro. All the troops were under arms, and seventeen cannon shots announced the arrival of the Governor-General.

A boat put out from land Avith Major Campbell, Mr. Kempt, and Abu-Sud, an interesting personage, Avhose biography the reader will find later on. I found Major Campbell looking Aery pale and thin, an evident sign of recent illness.

We disembarked, and were received on land by the troops draAvn up in double-file, folloAAed by Eaouf Bey, Commanding-Colonel of the garrison, and by all the officers under his orders. I shook hands with the botanist, Mr. "Witt, who had risen from bed expressly to welcome us ; he, too, Avas very thin, and bore the traces of recent and long illness. I asked after my friend M. Auguste Linant de Bellefonds, AA'lio, he told me, was dangerously ill, though somewhat better the last three_days.