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nity of his temporary residence, he happened to 
meet the long-lost fugitive face to face in a very 
narrow path, from which it was not possible for 
either to diverge. The master looked steadily 
and sorrowfully into the unabashed countenance 
of the £< runaway,” and sternly demanded to know 
“ where he was going ? ” “ He was just then on 
his way back home,” the deserter replied. “ The 
remembrances of all his master's former kindnesses 
had come home to him of late, and he had deter¬ 
mined at all risks to go back to his owner as 
speedily as possible; in fact, it was this anxiety 
that caused him to be without any baggage of 
any kind at that particular moment ” !! 
We have already hinted that the Bara do not 
live at all on good terms with ther neighbours, 
and they have sometimes been compared to the 
freebooters of the northern borders of our own 
country, who, in old times, were constantly em¬ 
broiled in petty feuds with the chiefs of the Scot¬ 
tish lowlands. To the Bara, a sudden descent upon 
the pastures of the adjacent country, in the bright 
light of a tropical moon, is of all things the 
most enjoyable. Secretly and silently the law¬ 
less band makes its way, with spear and shield, 
through the forest glades in the night hours, and 
many miles are traversed without a word or sound 
of any kind to break the stillness of the woods. 
The troops of lemurs, or the birds which are nest- 
