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Ibrahim stood near, to have a finger in the pie, if chance 

 offered. Now bleeding yourself in the arm is a very much 

 slower performance than when the victim is some one 

 else, and when I had succeeded in making the necessary 

 puncture in my left arm, it was cruelly disappointing to 

 find that the result was nil. Still there was the right 

 one to be experimented upon, so after bandaging up the 

 left the performance was reversed, and this time my 

 efforts at self-relief met with the success, I think it may 

 be said, they deserved. After losing eight ounces of 

 blood I felt very faint, and asked Albert for some water ; 

 but no response came from him, and after repeating my 

 request without effect I looked up and saw him as white 

 as a sheet, and the next moment he fainted away. 

 This had quite as good an effect upon me as water, and 

 arm No. 2 having been tied up after a fashion, the 

 seance was closed and I retired feeling decidedly re- 

 lieved, and to-day the improvement continues. Ran- 

 furly's attack is quite arrested, but it has left him so 

 very weak that I fear he will be unable to resume 

 shooting again, unless it be near the camp. 



One day last week Vivian paid a visit to the island 

 below Emhagga to look for a lion, and after hunting 

 amongst the bushes for some time the sharp eye of 

 Mohamed discovered one lying asleep under the branches 

 of a veiy overhanging mimosa. More than a minute 

 elapsed before Vivian could make it out, and it was only 



