GAP TER 2X. 
Tue BoRAN KILL ONE OF MY Boys AND WOUND ANOTHER — ELMI AVENGED 
— An Extincr VoLcANo — IN DANGER FROM ABOFILATO’S ARMY —- 
Excirinc NicHts — THE BatrLE — MoGaA KILLED — THE BorRAN 
SUE FOR PEACE. 
s PRIL 6. After a two hours’ march we came to a 
plain which was fairly free from bushes, and where 
we were rejoiced to find several of those remarkable wells 
such as we had first met with at Le. Just after lunch, 
when everything was apparently going well, I was startled 
by a boy’s piercing screams. My boys made a rush from 
the camp toward the place from which the sounds pro- 
ceeded; they were so frantic that it was all I could do to 
-hold enough men to guard the camp. As soon as I had got 
the camp properly guarded, I grabbed a few medical ap- 
pliances, and rushed to the place where it was now reported 
that one of my boys had been wounded. Sure enough, 
there was my good boy Isman badly cut up by spears. He 
had received two wounds in the back that laid bare the 
ribs, — but luckily had not perforated his lungs, — and also 
several wounds in other places. 
“ T hastened to stop the hemorrhage from his wounds, and 
while thus engaged I was shouted to that one of my men, 
Elmi, had been killed. Poor Elmi lay dead behind a 
bush, horribly mutilated, — his intestines scattered about, 
and a part of him carried away as a trophy by his mur- 
derers. Isman told me, after he had sufficiently recovered 
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