gardens were luxurious and well planted; and oranges, both sweet and bitter, guava, pomegranates, pineapples, and bananas abounded at every turn.

One of the first visits we paid — and it was a sad one — was to the house occupied by Lippens and Debruyne, our poor brother officers, sometime ambassadors at Sefu's court Strange to say (though they had been murdered and mutilated), they were buried opposite their own front door, with a neat little tomb built over them by their murderers. On disinterring their bodies we found that, owing to the nature of the soil in which they had been buried seven months before, they were not decomposed. We re-buried them with military honours. Our men brought in, among the other spoils, several ten-bore double breech-loaders, sixteen-bores, twelve-bores, about fifteen