SPORTING AND 



were all well flogged and threatened with 

 instant execution, it did not help us a bit. 

 We floundered about in all directions, and 

 at last hit upon a piece of more open 

 country, so that, for a time we got on 

 famously in the direction we knew our 

 route lay. Our disappointments were 

 most heartrending, for when we got to a 

 bit of open country that led in the proper 

 direction we were sure to find ourselves 

 shortly in another impassible jungle, without 

 the means of penetrating further ; then we 

 would have to go back and try another route. 

 This weary work had continued for nearly 

 three weeks and it seemed an intermina- 

 ble three weeks to us when, one evening, 

 a native came in and asked to see our com- 

 manding officer. On being taken to him 

 he was- found to be a deserter from the 

 enemy who had only left their camp the 



