In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
holding an open knife in his hand. The fright¬ 
ened girls took refuge in my wife’s room. 
The presence of so many persons in this room 
under the circumstances, greatly aggravated her 
illness and I twice went out to find where the 
brute was hid. It was so dark that 1 could not 
see him until he had crept close to me, and twice 
I was exposed to his murderous knife. Once he 
walked by my side the whole length of the pi¬ 
azza threatening to kill me, but by a side leap 
through a door, I escaped him. At last I found 
him in such a position that I succeeded in getting 
all the girls safe into their house. The boys had 
all fled the compound, one of them narrowly es¬ 
caping a thrust of West’s knife. Mr. Phillips 
took a seat in my room. 1 had hardly taken my 
seat from seeing the girls safe, when 1 heard the 
maniac say with a hiss, “ If you move, you are a 
dead man.” In another moment, with a loud 
yell, he leaped through an open window into the 
middle of my wife’s room. He remained stand¬ 
ing where he was for a few moments, tearing 
his clothes and making drunken threats as to 
what he would do, and then with another yell 
leaped back through the window again. 
Mr. Phillips sent to the Alake asking for pro¬ 
tection. He replied that he was not the ruler of 
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