Hunting.

however, one of the brothers was very near falling- a victim to his boldness. He attacked the elephant alone in the usual way, but stumbled and fell. He rose directly, but the elephant had already seized him in his trunk and hurled him to a distance of fifteen feet. Fortunately he fell into the middle of a thick bush, and thus escaped with some scratches and bruises. His friends laughed at the incident, and the following day he said, " I will rather eat my wife seven times than not take my revenge." He set out again, refusing the company of his brother, and returning late in the evening called all the village together, " Come," he said, " help me to transport the tusks, and take as much meat for yourselves as you like." All the population followed him. Ha had killed nine huge elephants.

But the fiercest animals are undoubtedly the buffalo, the rhinoceros and the leopard. These animals, so much feared by the natives, were attacked and killed by the two brothers with no more emotion than the hunters of hares experience with us. These two remarkable men were renowned from Kaka to the Victoria Nyanza. The elder of the two threw his lance with such precision that he rarely missed his aim at the tendons of the elephant's foot. Sometimes he was sent for from distant parts to kill some lion which did great mischief. Both men have gentle characters, and never refuse their aid to others. I left them at Kaka, whither they had gone, intending afterwards to go on the first occasion to Fashoda.

AYe must now resume our account of affairs at Khartoum.

While we were on the Avay the steamer Bovdem left that town for Gondokoro. The Bordecn had on board Mr. Kempt, engineer, and Mr. Russell, who was employed by Colonel Gordon.

A third steamer was likewise on the way to Goudon 2