42 Sei'en Years hi the Soudan.

approached they gradually retired. I fired at them at six hundred yards with my Remington. T had aimed well. One elephant uttered a cry or pain, the whole herd galloped off, and we soon lost sight of them Ju\ie 19. — We stopped at a forest to take in wood; Anson, Haggi and I, with two soldiers, profited by the stoppage to make an excursion into the forest in search of game. The country seemed deserted, not a path or any trace of mankind ; but the report of a gun THE CORPSES OF SLAUGHTERED NEGROES.

on our left united us all in one group. Haggi had killed a wild ox. A soldier was despatched in search of aid to transport the animal, but he had gone perhaps but twenty steps when he called for me and showed me the bodies of three negroes recently killed, which the vultures had entirely stripped of ilesh. Farther on we discovered two others, then another, and so on till they amoimted to seventeen in all. Returning to the place where we had left the bull, I found that Anson liad also discovered the corpses of nineteen negroes and that of a robber. Tt was eas}'