In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
the war would end without another battle, when 
the eastern horizon was shaken by a tremendous 
peal of distant thunder which continued to re¬ 
verberate for about thirty minutes. Then all was 
silence. I thought the enemy had been attacked 
in the rear and routed. Again the roar of battle 
shook the eastern horizon, but this time the sound 
was nearer. I had gone about a mile in the 
direction of the sound when I met a man greatly 
exhausted but still trying to run. 
“What is the matter?” I enquired. 
“ Areh orders that the gates shall be shut,” he 
pantingly replied. 
1 knew then that the allies had been defeated 
and were not only retreating but running. 1 kept 
up with the weary courier and got in before he 
shut the gate. When I reached the mission sta¬ 
tion, 1 found my wife alone and not being will¬ 
ing to leave her thus took her with me and 
started out in the town toward the gate of the 
city to learn what I could. We had gone only a 
short distance, when a great cry of lamentation 
through the whole city, showed that the people 
had given themselves up for lost. I then hurried 
back into our house. We had hardly gotten in 
before Mr. Phillips, all the inmates of the station, 
and many of the converts came running in. We 
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