occasional long gaps between the men) jumped across the road, seized the first man they could lay hold of, and disappeared with him into the dense bush on the other side.

In this way it would often happen that, without anyone knowing what had taken place, every straggler would be killed. Spears were launched out of the dense jungle, and transfixed the men without warning. The by-paths and game-paths were known only to the natives, and they were thus enabled to accompany the caravan and to watch their opportunity for attack. On several occasions the assailants fired from trees, within ten or fifteen yards of the path, and, dropping down immediately, were safe from pursuit with ten or fifteen yards of impenetrable jungle between them and our people. The villages in this district were all fortified, and were practically