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Truly the spot ell named, for there, cut out by water froe, lay one of the loomy

places that ever I had beheld It was a vast cleft in which granite

boulders were piled up fantastically, perched one upon another in great

colu the

rocks It faced towards the west, but the light of the sinking sun that

flowed up it served only to accentuate its vast loneliness, for it was a

big cleft, the best part of a e wea little path not a foot wide that led us at length to a large

hut and several santic ht fall at any ate of the fence two natives of I know not what tribe,out and thrust their

spears towardsyou here, Saduko?" asked one of them sternly

"A white man that I vouch for," he answered "Tell Zikali that ait

on him"

"What need to tell Zikali that which he knows already?" said the sentry

"Your food and that of your companion is already cooked in yonder hut

Enter, Saduko, with him for whom you vouch"

So ent into the hut and ate, also I washed myself, for it was a