children in and about our cantonments. He had a bag slung round his neck, which on examining we found contained an arm and a leg of a young child. As three or four children had disappeared within the fortnight, and there had been no deaths amongst them in camp, this was at the trial considered sufficient evidence against him, and he was taken out and shot, as the only cure for such an incorrigible.

Shortly after this a number of the prisoners of war took to deserting, and, finding out in which direction they went, we demanded of the great chief of the district that they should be given up to us. He replied that, with the exception of one prisoner, they had all been eaten, and sent thirty-seven slaves in exchange. The one he returned proved to be a little boy-servant of mine who had been persuaded to run away by some of