discovered, was that Mohara had been wounded in the leg by a chance shot.

During this pause Cassar dismounted his tent, got his loads and wounded on the road, and retired in our direction. The bush was very thick, and when the Arabs followed him in force he managed to hold them in check till all his own force had crossed a deep river, which, fortunately for him, was on his road. As the only means of crossing the river was by a single enormous tree, which had been felled across it, he had no difficulty in keeping the Arabs at bay till the main part of his caravan had got a long start. He then raced after them, and arrived at our camp as I have described.

While we were still talking, firing commenced again almost in the same direction as we had heard it in the morning. In the evening one