In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
modified. Mr. Phillip’s horse, a tricky little 
fellow, unexpectedly took it into his head to 
“cut up.” His reason for such conduct was 
known only to himself. During this very inop¬ 
portune performance the saddle girth broke and 
the rider and his saddle both fell to the ground 
in a pile. Some little girls standing near im¬ 
mediately joined hands and commenced dancing, 
keeping step to a song which humorously but 
not insultingly described the scene. The manner 
in which they threw the description into im¬ 
promptu measure and then adapted it to a favorite 
tune was really wonderful. 
At last, we entered the gate and the rattle of a 
drum on our left announced our arrival to Areh. 
Through the sound of this drum the chief was 
always informed of what was going on in the 
front court of his rambling palace. These drum¬ 
mers are trained to make their instruments talk 
and when we entered the drum said quite dis¬ 
tinctly, “Areh, oyinbo day,” (Areh, the white 
man has come). The piazza was about one hun¬ 
dred yards from the gate, and before we had 
reached it Areh, dressed rather plainly for a chief, 
came through a low door and took his seat at 
the usual place. A number of venerable men 
were already there sitting on his left, We ad, 
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