inside it, and given half an hour to make medicine, after which he was taken out and publicly flogged. His squeals soon convinced the assembled multitude that the white man's “ medicine “ was stronger than his, and when liberated afterwards we were obliged to give him a guard as protection against the natives over whom he had so long tyrannised, and who would otherwise have torn him to pieces.

The following day there was a tornado accompanied by a hailstorm, some of the hailstones being as large as hens' eggs. Hail is a most unusual occurrence in this district — in fact, numbers of natives said they had never seen it before; and it was immediately supposed by the native population to be a vengeance brought on us by the “ medicine man “ for having interfered with him. As we, however, all