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yelling and flying rather than running, assailed us with volleys of clubs and lances.

The first to drop from the fire of my exasperated followers was Meckwen Dit, the author of the preceding murders, and the zealous advocate for our own destruction; around him fell also several of his bravest warriors, and as impetuous as the onslaught had been was their flight precipitate.

Our booty consisted of a herd of cattle and some sheep, several guns and pistols, which had belonged to the unfortunate Arab victims, and sundry prisoners, whose restoration I looked upon as a means of re-establishing peaceable, if not friendly, relations between us. In this I was not disappointed. The discomfited Dinkas never having contemplated a reprisal by me so mortifying to them as the loss of their cattle, now feared a repetition of a similar attack on other Kraals, to prevent which they engaged the good services of my old Djour chiefs, Akon Dit and Pfing, to negotiate a return to our former peaceful alliance, which by their guarantee I was but too willing to embrace, and thus rid myself of the prisoners, who were all given up, my object in visiting the country being a peaceful one-namely, trade.

The cattle went to reward my friend Maween, the Waj chief, for his assistance in helping me out of my fix among the Wajkoing.

While journeying homeward towards the lake, a few days after the above affair, and proceeding through the Ajack tribe, they, hoping to retrieve their fortunes, while acting in concert with the Neanglau, attacked me, and were again defeated.

Jan. 24th.-The tribes now seemed to deplore with myself the melancholy consequences of their barbarous assaults, and I had this day the pleasure of receiving their chiefs-six in number-accompanied by several heads of neutral tribes, among whom was my old friend of the Waj, to unite in assurances of their peaceful intentions for the future. I am happy to say that, under the conviction of the advantages which peaceful traffic would confer on them, and the futility of opposing their crude weapons to fire-arms, I have ever since enjoyed uninterrupted respect from, and cordiality with, the Dinka tribes.

Jan. 25th.-I broke up, with forty of my own men and fifty Djour negroes, soon after sunrise, and passing into the territories of the Dôr at noon, when we halted an hour, in thick bush, through which the most of our route lay, we, after ten hours' march, arrived in the evening at the village of Djau, so called after the chief.

Finding my journal might extend to impracticable dimensions, I shall curtail it, by merely giving the names of the villages at which we passed the nights whilst traversing the Dôr country southwards.

Henceforth the negroes will not proceed more than one day's journey with me, so that I have to get a new set of porters every morning, and lose all connexion between us and our station and boats

Jan. 26th.—My old friend Djau having prepared our porters, we were early on the road, and during our journey to the frontier of the country, quartered at the following villages, viz:-Kurkur, Maeha, Mura, Umbura, Modocunga, Miha, Nearhe, Gutu, Mungela, Ombelambe, Lungo, and Umbotea, which, after several halts, we reached on the 19th of February, after sixteen days' march. Between Djau and Maeha, six small streams, and near Gutu a large navigable river, are crossed, all flowing from the southeast in a northwesterly direction towards the lake, which they feed.

The country, from the lake up to the Djour, is exceedingly flat, but in the Dôr country it first becomes undulating, where the new red sandstone crops out on the sides of several heights and ravines until near Gutu, Mungela, and Ombelambe, bold red granite mountains, with exceedingly large mica, rise perhaps 2,000 feet above the level of the country.

Generally the country is thick bush, but cleared in the neighborhood of the villages, and in a high state of cultivation.

The Dôr are not so tall as the Dinka tribes generally, but thick-set and strongly made. They speak a totally different language, and their color is dark brown. Unlike the Dinka, they do not extract the front lower teeth, nor do they construct their villages similarly. Their huts are larger, made of bamboo, and nearer to each other, without palisades.

As a general rule, the centre of each village consists of a circle of huts, constructed around the largest tree in the neighborhood, upon which the wartrophies such as skulls, &c.,-are suspended; underneath is a large tom-tom, formed of the hollowed trunk of a tree, and between it and the huts a large circular space forms the dancing ground.

Their arms consist of bows and arrows, clubs and lances, which both Dôr and Djour, who are excellent smiths, manufacture exceedingly well.

The women perforate the under lip, in which they wear a piece of round wood for ornament. Young girls introduce a piece of wood about the size of a sixpence, whilst full-grown women wear pieces as large as a florin.

Married women, in lieu of aprons, wear bunches of green leaves suspended by a belt to the waist, hung down to the ankles, which latter are ornamented with a solid iron ring, each fully one inch in diameter. Whilst dancing, these rings are struck together, and produce an agreeable sound.

Feb. 23d.-After a few days' rest, and some trouble in procuring an interpreter, we traversed a hilly and rather dreary country, and, after a forced march of ten hours, we arrived at Baer, also called the Mundo country. This tribe resemble in color and habits the Djour, from whom perhaps they are descended, as their languages much resemble each other. They are also good smiths.

Occupying a hilly and almost mountainous but narrow strip of country, between two powerful tribes, they are hunted by the Niam-Nam, their southern neighbors, and when taken become their slaves.

Their villages are either on the summits of the hills or at the foot of some rock difficult of access, to which they fly when attacked by the Niam-Nam, whom they say are cannibals.

We remained with this tribe three days, having with difficulty found a dozen men to carry on my beads, baggage, &c.

I should have said that I had left the greater part of my merchandize at Lungo among the Dôr, in order to be less encumbered.

Feb. 24th.-At sunrise recommenced our journey, and passing through some fine ravines, gradually came out upon a fine undulating country, in parts beautifully wooded. We halted under the shade of some very large trees, the leaf of which much resembles that of the fig-tree, for an hour at noon, and at 4 P. M. entered the large village called Mundo, in the Runga or Niam-Nam tribe. It was some time before I could feel comfortable; the sight of my white skin, added to a quantity of cowry-shell and glass beads in my possession, having excited great curiosity, and a strong desire to become possessed of both our

persons and goods, the former, as explained to me through a string of four interpreters, for the purpose of feasting on.

The old chief Dimu with some difficulty managed to persuade the younger men that we might probably be difficult of digestion, being armed with weapons which they had neither seen nor heard; and being told, after having presented the old man with a few beads of different kinds, that they might have beads or cowries in exchange for provisions and elephants' tusks, we were very soon offered every kind of food they possessed, consisting of sweet potatoes, beans of different kinds, ground-nuts, maize, millet, vegetable-butter, dried meats of the antelope and buffalo, and, as a great luxury, the hind-quarters of a dog, unskinned and just killed.

Others ran to the bush in quest of tusks, which for the greater part proved valueless, owing to the length of time they had been exposed to decomposition by fire and rain.

The greater part of the men present, consisting of some hundreds, were slaves, of which the Runga are large proprietors, and entertain them for the purpose of cultivating their lands, hunting, and performing every kind of work; it being considered a sign of poverty for a native Niam-Nam to occupy himself with anything but the chase and war.

The country is well cultivated, and the villages well constructed of bamboo. The Niam-Nam are of ordinary stature, and a dark-brown color. Their arms consist of spears, a kind of curved sword, and an iron boomerang, two of which they attach to the handle of a large oblong shield, constructed of interwoven and stained reeds of the palm-leaf. Both men and women wear leather sandals, and a kind of cloth, woven from the fibres of the bark of trees, around the loins. The date-palm tree and the banana grow wild. The India-rubber tree, as also the vegetable-butter tree, exist in abundance.

The rains commence in the month of February, and last until the latter end of October.

The territory of this tribe, I was informed, extended ten days' journey south, where a deep and wide river, flowing west, was said to be its frontier.

Having marched twenty-five days from the shore of the lake, at 19 direct miles per day, will amount to 475 miles, which brings me, I imagine, near the Equator.

What with the purchase of several tusks and our daily provisions, my stock of beads had seriously diminished, and I obtained the promise of a score of negroes to conduct me back to Lungo, in the Dôr country, to my depot.

It was not without a sincere promise to return and bring more beads that, at sunrise, I was enabled to leave the hospitable old chief Dimu and my NiamNam friends, whose salutations were not so marked as with the Dinkas, but who confined their adieus to an ordinary squeeze of the hand.

Having in due time returned to Lungo, I left twenty-two of my men there, well supplied with articles for carrying on trade with the Dor, Mundo, and Niam-Nam tribes, until my return the following year.

Should they fall short of beads, or from other causes be unable to maintain their position, they were directed to fall back on my principal station at the Djour. On my way up, having occasionally purchased tusks, and invariably, to save expense of carriage, left them in charge of the chiefs, I necessarily returned through the same villages, and in due course of time arrived, on the 15th of May, at Khartum.

[From the New York Evening Post.]

ANOTHER AFRICAN BOOK.

The Okavango River.

The Okavango River is in Southern Africa. Mr. Charles John Andersson, a Swede, whose account of a journey to Lake Ngami is one of the most interesting of African travel books, was reported, two years ago, to have met a fate by no means strange for an African hunter. It was said that he was impaled by the tusks of an enraged elephant, which he had wounded but not killed. The issue of a new volume of travels, entitled "The Okavango River, a Narrative of Travel, Adventure, and Exploration, by Charles John Andersson," proves that he is still, fortunately, among the living; and proves, too, that the curious infatuation which has led so many African travellers back to the scene of their perils and sufferings, has beset also this hardy Swede. It seems that he returned to South Africa to become the manager of certain mines at Walfish, or Walwich (Whale) Bay, on the southeastern coast. Thence he set out one day for a journey through Damara land, to look for the Cunene river, which he did not find, but happened instead on the Okavango.

AN AFRICAN OUTFIT.

To travel in Africa one needs a number of servants, and this was Mr. Andersson's outfit and establishment:

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"My servants were as follows: One cook, acting as confidential servant; one general attendant, who also superintended my native personnel; one wagon-driver, one leader, one guide, two herds, two interpreters, and one or two lads whose duty consisted in making themselves generally useful-that is, eleven men in toto; no great force certainly to enter upon the exploration of a wild and unknown region. Of all this little band of followers, John Mortar and John Pereira, the first two on my list, were the only persons on whom, in any case of emergency, I could rely. Those who have perused Tropical South Africa' and Lake Ngami,' will at once recognize in the first of these names Mr. Galton's cook, who, through a difficult and harassing expedition, proved himself so faithful and trustworthy. Mortar had, when he entered mine, just left Mr. Green's service, where he had earned for himself a similarly good character. I considered myself most fortunate in securing so tried and valuable a servant. will be remembered that this man was a native of Madeira, and consequently well acquainted with the Portuguese language. John Pereira was of Malabar descent. He had received a most liberal, and, for his station in life, unusual education. He wrote a fair hand, spoke and wrote English, Dutch and Portuguese fluently, understood Chinese, and several Hindostanee dialects, and could translate Latin-which is more than I could do myself.

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"The rest of my servants being all native attendants, and distinguished for no remarkable quality, (except Kamepjie and Tom, both remarkable trackers' and interpreters,) I pass them over in silence. I have only to add, that besides several other barbarous tongues, my men spoke Damara, Hottentot, Sichuana, and Portuguese,-languages most likely to come into requisition.

"The remainder of my establishment consisted of one wagon, thirty firstrate Trek oxen, five draught and carriage oxen, eleven young oxen, four donkeys, one old horse, seventy sheep and goats, chiefly for slaughter; and lastly, but not the least important, about a dozen dogs of a somewhat mongrel description, though good enough as watch-dogs, for which service they were principally required.

"The chief object of the expedition was, as already stated, to penetrate to the Cunene: and further, supposing a safe arrival on the banks of that river, to explore it either towards its source or towards its embouchure, according to the point where I might happen to strike it. Moreover, if time and means admitted, I intended thence to make an excursion to some Portuguese settlement on the west coast, such as Mossamedos, Benguela, &c.

"If I succeeded in accomplishing these purposes, the following results would be obtained, viz: the great blanks in the maps, between Damara and Ovambo Land, and in Dr. Livingstone's remarkable journey from the banks of Sesheke to St. Paul de Loando, would be filled up, whilst vast and probably rich regions would be opened to the influence of commerce and civilization."

VARIETIES OF DAMARA LIFE.

Travelling at first with some obstruction in the rainy season, Mr. Andersson reached in a fortnight the Omaruru river, seventy miles from his starting point. He had seen no game, his flock of sheep was dwindling. It was food to his party only for a hundred days, and he might be out for a year or two. After crossing the river at a pleasant spot-very unlike its desolate and rocky mouth, which when a sea fog hangs over it is like a dream of the infernal regionsthere was cessation of rain; but for a hundred miles the way had to be cut step by step through bushes and trees, with stems varying from an inch to two feet in thickness. Pick and crowbar, and other roadlevelling implements, had been taken as part of the tourists' regular equipment. The traveller had a rent made in his arm by the kick of an elephant rifle, and not long afterwards lost pieces of flesh from both his arms, besides getting one of his knees torn by a fall from a mass of rugged granite. But there was a wagon to mend day by day, larder to provide for, road-making to direct, and laying-up to nurse wounds was quite out of the question. In the middle of April there was a delightful change into a forest of trees without thorns, the trees being chiefly of the kind called in Damara language omutali, but presently the Damara parent tree, omomborombonga, was abundant.

ROAD-MAKING IN AFRICA.

The next difficulty met by the tourist in Africa was the being brought to a standstill under a wall-like range, nearly a thousand feet in perpendicular height, on the top whereof was the table-land, across which their way should be. After search a defile was found.

"This defile I had been unable to see before on account of intervening rocks, Well, up it we at first proceeded pretty comfortably; gradually, however, it became narrower; hundreds of little ravines intersected it in every direction,

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