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A‘an n. week after his return, Mr. Esholn‘s illness suddenly developed grever \}'3')})[(}ll}3 than had yet shown themselyes. 311.1203 had seen her husband before break- filth at which .time he looked and declared himself to be considerably better than on the previous day. After bro 1i\ fast, she went out to buy some grapes and other articles, and was gone about an hour and a. half. On going into the dressing- room which opened into her husband’s bedroom. she found Miss Esholb installed there. She was passing through, when the latter held up a finger warmly. “ My brother is asleep,” she whispered. “He has become much worse during the last; three hours Dr. Pyofitt has just, gone. He ndminisiered a. sedative, and has left word that the patient must on no aocount be dis tnr‘::ed. Un‘uil there is a. change for the better. I have arranged to nurse my bro- 1her in the daytime with the assistance of I)J.\'ry. and have sent for Mrs. Jukes, an excellent person, who nursed him when he was :31! two years ago, who will take charge of everything during the night. ” “ But in that; case, what is there left for «no in do?” asked Agnes in dismay. “ Nothing,” responded Miss Esholt ieily. “ lént, as his wife, it is my duty to re- main by Mr. Esholt’s side; and surely I can To one or both of you in the nurs- N either she nor Miss Esholt could help being struck with the change in \Vilmot’s looks when, on the evening of his arrival, he entered the dining-room. Short as was the time since they had last seen him, he looked as if he had gone through some great sickness or great trouble in the in- terim. His cheeks had a hollowness such as they had never shown before; his eyes seem- ed to have sunk deeper into his head, and there were dark half-circles under them. the outward and visible signs of inward sulfering either mental or physical. But his spirits were feverishly gay. All through the dinner he chatted with much animation with Miss Esholt; but be frequently laughed, and that rather boisterously, when no laughter seemed to be called for, and par- took of the wine more freely than he had ever done before at Mr. Esholt’s tnhle. To Agnes he was studiously polite, but nothing more. To her that evening it seem- ed imposssble to believe that this was the same inan who, but two short weeks before, had told her in such impassioned accents that he loved her. He rose from the table with the ladies and bade them good-night at the door. ' Except at the dinner hour, they saw little of him. He breakfasted alone, and after attending to Mr. Esholt’s correspondence, he went down to the office during the middle of the day, returning about four o‘clock. Sometimes, when there was any- thing very special to consult Mr. Esholt about, Mr. Kimber would come back with him ; but on these occasions the head-clerk, who was of a. nervous, fidgety disposition, with an old bachelor’s uneasiness when in the presence of ladies, could never be in- duced to stop to dinner. 1‘ “hild !” burst oubMiss Esholt, her stony self-po:session for once desert‘ing l.»er-â€"“ and in many ways you are little more than a childâ€"how dare you attempt to interfere in any arrangements I may think fit to make? My brother is very ill. It is imperatively necessary that; he should be nursed by skilled hands, by those used to illness in various forms, and who are at home 111 a. sickroom, not by raw in- experienced young women llke yourself. What do you know of illness, pray? Whom have you ever nursed? Mr. Esholb is as dmr to me as a. brother as he is to you as a. ‘ bandâ€"possibly more so. Do you Luthi, then, that I will willingly allow hislife to be endangered merely to gratifiy 1hr: capriecs of a wilnt girl? Not so, Mrs lflsholt. You are his wife, and you can of course insist on numing him; but if you do, will you be answerable for the consequences ? I will not. Take the responsibility into your own hands, if it so please you ‘3 but remember that should my brother not recover, I shall assert with my last breath that it was your wilfulness and ignorance that killed him 1” His old and tried head-clerk, J abez Kim- ber, would continue to take charge of the business as heretofore whenever Mr. Esholt had been absent. Each morning Mr. Kim- ber would send up the letters, or such por- tion of them as-he deemed it requisite that his chief should see, by pony express to Everton ; but as Mr. Esholt himself was at present unable to use a pen, it became necessary to employ an amanuensis, to whom, after the letters had been read to him, he could dictate the answers, together with such instructions as he might deem needful tor the proper conduct of the busi- ness during his absence. For this position of Emanuensis Mr. Esholt selected Wilmot Bum ell. As W'ilmot lived acrossthe water, and as Mr. Esholt would be likely to require his services to answer the late letters in an evening, it became requisite that he should take up his quarters for the time being at Evcriml. Thus, bye. strange concatenation of circumstances, heand Agnes were brought together again. Agnes heard the news with secret dismay. 111g After a fortnight’s absence, Mr. Esholt found himself at home again. He brought back with him abad sore throat, which be- fore long developed into inflammation of the chest, confining him indoors without hope of release for some time to come. This ill- ness was especially annoying, coming as it did at sucha. time, for just then there oc- curred one of those ominous lulls in the commercial world which, like the intense quiet that often precedes a. storm in the aerial world, caused the souls of manv to quake within them. It is not well at such times when the captain of the ship cannot himself direct the helm ; but Mr. Esholt was a man who never wasted his breath in bewailiug the inevitable; all he could do was to make the best arrangements possible under the circumstances. MR. ESHULT’S YOUNG WIFE In this juncture Mrs. Jukes was an- nounced. As the nurse entered the mom, Agnes left it. She was dazed, bewildered, heart-stricken, andyetthat terrible woman’s icrribie words were not to be gain "d. Of x=rsing, in the proper sense vof {2110 term, w knew next to nothino‘. Dane she take urn: herself the tremendous responsibility ' ; Esholt would thurst upon her if she p) CHAPTER. IX. BY T. W. SPEIGHT. “ The symptoms have abated, and there is a slight improvement,” he answered gravely. “ Thank Heaven for that 1” “He has even been able to dictate the outlines of two importme letters, Which is certainly more than he could have done this morning. â€"â€"By-the~way, I was coming to look for you, Mrs. Esholt.” “ To look for me !” “ Mr. Esholt has just handed me his hunch of keys with a request that I Would see you and ask you to be at the trouble of opening the private drawer in his writing- table, Where you will find a, certain mem- orandum book bound in purple leather. This book you are to hand to me returning me the keys at the same time, of course after re- locking the drawer. Mr. Esholt specified this one as being the key of the private drawer.” n-r x VVonderiEg soméwhat, goo-k the keys. “If you don’t mini, I will await youtlrgtuxju here,” said Wilmet. “ You are quite right, my dem- Esliolt, in terming marriage a. mistake. I found that out long ago ; you, I suppose, are discover- ing it by degrees. Young Wives are kittle creatures to manage. I can fully sympathise with you, now that the first rosy flush of wedded life has faded into the dull light of this workaday worldâ€"mow that you are no longer bride and bridegroom, but common- place man and wife. Take consolation from one who has gonethrough the ordeal. New harness always sits uneasily at first. You say that whatever you may think or feel, you always Show a. smiling countenance : a. wise policy on your part, which I hope ” Although Mr. lflsholt grew no Worse in the course of the next two 01' three days, it, might “'lLl) eq'ml cer ainty be averred that there x'ws little or no change for the better in hi: my! tinn. But while his bodily weak- - : :ocxtvreme, his mind was as elem: :« in had been; and as he lay there one weary hour after another, it )7 L0 be expected that his thougth shouiri l, UOIl much over the disquieting tid- ' ‘ which reached him dzuyafter day from L. e office ; and that of itself was enough to retard his recovery. Lying there helpless in the partially darkened room, difficulties which, had he been about and well, he wouhl have smiled {L , disdainfully, assumed unreal proporlions in his eyes,andalthonghheknew in his mind that they were merely as dwzwfs masquerading in giants’ armour, he had not strength to combat, them, but allowed them to torment: him at; their pleasure, while calling himself a weak fool for not trampling them under foot, as he would have done at another time. moment. he was by her side. “ 0 \Vilmot, how is he Y” she cried, in her anxiegv letting the 01d familm‘ name slip from her lips. “ Is he better? Has he ask- ed for me? Is there nothingI can do for “ I shall not detain you more than half a. minute,” she answered, as she crossed the hall and then turned the corner of the cor- ridor which led to Mr. Eshult’s study. \Vil- mot stood without movng where she had left; him. He was still very pale, and his teeth were fixed tightly on his under lip, as if to keep down some hidden emotion. “ Will she never come back I” he muttered under his breath, for Agnes, ins-tend of being away only half a minute, was fully three minutes before she returned. Oncglance at her face was enough. “ She has found it I” he whispered to himself. “ Here is the memorandum hook and here are the keys,” she said in a dull expression- less voice, which contrasted strangely with her excitement) of'a few minutes ago. He tn ok them, bowed, and, Without a word, went; back up-smirs on his Way to Mr. Esholb’s room. Agnes stood where he had left her till he Wis out; of sight ; then she too Went up-stairs, slowly, and taking hold of the balust-er as she went. At the top, she turned to the left and went to her room. Here it; broke offabrupbly ; but tlia young wife had read enough. She. put the letter ack into Lhe drawer, and taking the me- moranu‘um book with her, went her way. 0n opening her husband’s private (h wer in the study, she saw, lying close by the memorandum book of which she had; come in search, atorn portion of rL-letfer, to which her eyes seemed involuntarily (hzw‘n. ‘ It was written in a. bold masculine h l ; and quite uneonseiously, for her ‘Iudd at the moment was elsewhere, her H‘s ‘ ' one or two of the sentences. . sense failed to strike her, then all at once the hot blood crimsoned her face, and she read them again. Then she shut the drawer quickly and turned the key; but having done that, she stood With‘ut stlrring for a. full minute, her mind a chaos of conflicting emotions. Then she deliberately unlocked the drawer again, took om; the letter, and read it slowly and carefully through. She read it more than once, more than twice, till, in fact, every word had burnt itself into her memory. Both beginning and end of the letter had been torn away ; what there was of it ran as under : It was dusk when SEC 10% her mom, and a, servant, was lighting the hull hum}; as she went down. During all Lhose hours no cue had been near her. Was her hushzwd bet- ter or worse TShe could rest no longer without; knowing. She had a. right to go to his room to asceriain that much, even if every other right were denied her. Afcer pausing a moment, she turned to rte-ascend the stairs, and '- she did so, she saw \Vil- mot on the lumhu L‘mn'e, on the point of coming down. He A 1. j\ I; left Mr. E‘sholt’s room. His face flushed at sight of her, and then became as pale as Agnes’s own. Next moment. he was by her side. him Then, again, he was bitterly grieved at heart, at- seoing so little of his Wife. “ Where is Agnes? ” he would sometimes ask when he woke up from an uneasy slumber and looked round with longing eyes fora sight of his yomig wife’s pleas- ant; face. Then his sister would put him elf with some commonplace answer that Agnes was busy elsewhere, or that; she had just been to inquire how he was ; and would finish by saying that Dr. Pyefitt had forbidden all unnecessary conversation. He had not strength to press the point, but would murmur to himself: “ She does not care for me. Why should she? She has loved once, and can never love again I” And then he would fall again into one of his frequent linlf-sleeps, in which No, she dare notâ€"she dare not ! Her hus- band was ill, perhaps dying, and she must be a spectatorâ€"«nothing more. V1) The cable announces that De Less-op: is likely to be prosecuted for induJing the French people to put their money in the Panama Canal. The canal company broke down over two years ago after carrying on the work in a manner described by the commisslon appointed by the liquidator lLS, “ scandalously reckless and wasteful.” ’l‘. e amount of money actually sunk in the enterprise was $280,000,000. The plant ‘ and material on hand was estimated to be lworth $90,000,000 hut though every mile :of the route has been kept under surveil- 3 lance the property has been gradually de- Vteriorating in value irom disuse and from f the excessive dampness of the region. The Loommission referred to estimated that it 1 would take $347,000,000 and twenty years’ ime to finish the canal. The twelve-year ;term of the company lapses on March ' 3,1892. but the Columbiun Government has agreed on rather stilf conditions to pro- l long it for eight years. It 18 not believed, 'however, that any more money will be I spent in the enterprise. Besides the deadly ' climate, in itself no small drawback, it is believed that the canal would be of little luse to sailing vessels. Owing to the un- l certainty of the winds in the Bay of Panama zsuch vessels would be delayed frequently i fm- (laws and even weeks. UAJU DCJAID DIIU UUulLl LIU LUIlgUl AUULJ “64th Neither by day nor night could Agnes get that terrible letter out of her thoughts. She wandered about the great dismal house, pale and sad, like an unhappy ghoSt for whom there is nowhere any rest. Not a creature in the world was there to whom she could open her heart and unfold h sorrows. Never so much as now had she missed kind- heerted Aunt Maria’s comforting presence. Sometimes a wild longing caine over her to leave all this weary coil of trouble behind her and nuke her way to the fair-off parson- age where her aunt now lived, and there claim the love, the shelter, and the rest which she knew would not be denied her. \Vhenever she and \Vilmot chanced to en- counter each other, his soft veiled glances and melancholy smiles were not lost upon her. They were not like words-she could not take open cognisance of them ; and since the finding of the letter, the knowledge that she was stillas dear to him as ever sometimes sent a. faint mtnnentary glow through her heart, which only servezl to make the dreur reality seem more dreary still whenever her thoughts contrasted it, as it was inevitable they should sometimes do, with the golden possibilities of what might have been. And so the weary dnys sped slowly on. At length there came a (layâ€"~3b011tau7eek after Agnes’s discovery of the lettenâ€"when tidings went through the house that Dr. Pyefitt had pronounced Mr. Eshoit to be much hetter,anil that there was every reason to hope the improvement would continue. That same evening Agnes sat down to com. municate the news to Miss Maria, knowing how glad she would he to receive it,‘ Find- ing herself, when she had written he}: note, to be out of envelopes, she went do’w: to her husband’s study in search of éomeifeel- ing sure that at particular time Wilmot would be engaged with Mr. Eshblt. She found the room empty, asehe had surmised it would be. The lamp was lighted aml the curtains drawn. The desk at which 'lVil- mot usually eat was littered with letters and papers of various kinds. There, on the opposite side of the big square table, was the leather-covered chair in which Mr. Es- holt sat when at work, and there in front of it was the private drawer in which she had found the fatal let‘er. An archway and portiere divided this room from the library proper. Agnes navingfound what she want- Scarcely had she come to this conclusion when she heard voiCes in the corridorâ€"thus of VVilmot and some strang zrâ€"and was dis- mayed to find that the speakers were com- ing in the direction of the study. She had just time to push aside the porticre and glide through into the library beyond, when the study door was opened and VVilmot and the stranger entered. The library was in darkness ; but Agnes at once made her way noiselessly towards a. door at the opposite end which opened into a side corridor from whence she would be able to getback unob- served to her room. Her heart gave a great throb when, on trying this door, she found it locked, and looked, too, from the outside. Her only means of escape was out off I While she was standing in dire perplexity, not knowing what to do next, she heard the stranger say : “ I suppose we have nothing to fear from eavesdmppers ‘3” To which “’11â€" mot replied: “ Nothing.” Then he strode across the room, drew aside the portiere and peered for an instant into the darkness be- yond. Agnes, who was wearing a black dress this evening, had barely time to sink into a. recess between two bookcases. Then the portiere fell back into its place, and all was darkness again. every side to overhelm him. sometimes, however, on awaking he would fiml her there sitting by his side, {or even Miss Es- holt did not venture to keep her always ouL of her husband’s room~and then it was touching to see the smile that brightened his wan face as he stretchc'l out his h-md towards her. “He is only trying to de- ceive me,” Agnes would say bitterly to her- self at such times. “ He wants to make me believe that he still loves me; but, after that; letter, how is it possible for me ever to believe again ‘3” Then, again, Miss Esholb was nearly always in the room, and that did not tend to set her at her ease. So she would mechanically prees her husband’s hand and axek him how he was, and sit 1L little while, gazing with a sinking heart into his worn face, and then hurry out to hide the’tears she could no longer keep hack. ,-, had jusL turned he go, when there came a ring at the front door. \Vho could it; be? Probably Dr. Pyufitb, who sometimes made a. second call about that hour. She heard a servant answer the summons, and then the sound of voices, but whose voices she was unable to judge. As she could not gebback to her room without passing through the entrance-hall. and as she did not care to be seen by any possible strangers, who, for alight she knew, might be some of Miss Es- holb’s visitors, she decided to stay where she was for a few moments till the coast should be clear. with a. sort of fearful facination, a. huge dark cloud which was slowly creeping up towards the zenith, and ere_long would enfold boy‘th his fortunes' and hié happiness in its pail-like embrace. In the frame of mind in which he then was, his Wife’s desert-i011 of himâ€"for such he termed it to himselfâ€"seemed almost a. matter of course; merely one more among the crowd of misfortunes rushing in from The. Prosecution of Re R" (TO BE CONTI an.) On the next day, however, when t. 12 Balls had exhausted nearly their entire supply of ammunition, they were attacked by the enemy, who wer eslinmt-cd to number 10,000 men, and, after a Lex'l'ible battle, Dr. Kinkâ€" grafl' and his army were driven pell mell from the field. It; is Known that; the Bafnbl suf- {OI'S’l a 1055 of :r' least 505) men b the loss of'Zintgl y was still gre “er. thls own for e of m men nearly ‘20!) were killed or left 011 the field. Among the dead were Lient. v; ', 1;;31; my; anal Muss Thighs and No se trading comp-my. The cable d speaks of Germ Lns among the pylssuners, when by the savages, but this is probxbly an error, as it, is behaved no liv- ‘ ‘lite men fell into their hands. Only meagre details have yet been pub- lished of the terrible experience of Dr. Zint- grafl‘. He started from Cameroons last fall with a. very large expedition for the purpose of establishing the German pretensions to Adamaua and the adjacent regions. In his party were Lieut. von Spangenherg,the trad- ers Jantzen and Thormahlen, with other white men, besides five hundred native car- riers. The expedition safely reached the German station of Baliburg. which Dr. Zint- graff had founded on a previous expedition. Friendly relations had been established be- tween the Bali tribe and the Germans, and trade had been opened between the Bali peo- ple and Cameroons. Just beyond the Bethe, however, lives the hostile chief of the Bafuti, who sent word to the whites that they would not be permitted to travel further east. He murdered two messengers whom Dr. Zint- gruff sent to him with olfers of peace. The warlike Balis told the explorer that the Ba.- fnti could be reduced to submission, and oii'ered to reenforce his expedition by 5,000 warriors and sweep the enemy out of the 1‘0 1d. The oii‘er was acovpterl, and on Jan, 31 last a. stubborn battle took place, the re. sult of which was that the chief town of the Bufnti fell into the. hands of the white men and their allies and was bu: ed to the gr 1nd to the coast, in order to equin ‘ expedition to punish the native: who Ema: vanquished him. I: is {he expeditinn he "vised and de- spatched to the interior, which returns with the report that unfortunate members of his party who were taken prisoners had killed themselves to avoid torture. But the cable despatch does no: tell half the story of Lhe party that was sent; from Cameroons to avenge the defeat of the earlier expedition. All we know of it is contained in a few lines sent by cable from the mouth of the Niger River. Unlike the “PH fish They Cannot Make Their Way in Foreign Lands. The most stubborn resistance to the ad- vance of the white race into Africa. has been offered by the natives who live behind the German possessions at Cameroons. About 1 three years ago, the expedition of Kund and Tappenbeek, who were on their way to Ail-amiqu mud the Benue River, was driven back with great loss, and for many (lays the explorers and their panic-stricken carriers fled through the jungle, beset at every mo- ment by enemies concealed in the tall grass, who now and then brought 'down a fresh victim with their poisoned arrows. The cable now informs us that the punitive ex- pedition sent out from Cameroons to punish the natives who inflicted such terrible de- feat upon Dr. Ziutgraii’s expedition in J enuary last, found that the natives had cruelly tortured the prisoners they took be- fore executing them, and that many of the prisoners commited suicide in order to es- cape torture. After this: terrible I‘exmrss Dr. Zintgrafi‘ remained for: fourteen days nnmolcsted in his station at Balihurg, and " ‘n retreated The avengers were themselves most terri- bly defeated, in spite of their superior weep- ons. The white leaders of the expedition were killed to a man, and those of their un- fortunate followers who escaped the over- whelming onslaught of the enemy, stra ggled north to the Benue River, where they were found in woful plightby British traders and taken down to the sea. This year’s sad record of German fighting in the unknown lands behind Cameroons is the most surpris- int.)r and appalling chapter in the history of European dealings with African aborigines. For the first time the savages of Africa. have offered successful resistance, not to a poor explorer with a handful of men, but to large and well-organized expeditions, equipped and sent out by a European Government and fully prepared, it was believe 1, to find a. way or make one. The cheap muskets made for the Atrican trade, and reputed to be more dangerous to the men who fire them than to any one else, have at last had their day of triumph. When the complete story of these tragic events is known, it will not be surprising if it is found that the Germans are themselves responsible in large measure for the terrible reverses. Somehow it happens that the Germaupathway in Africa is usually marked with blood, where the men of other nations wall: in peace. Compared with the British they are novices in the art of making their way in savage lands. Their experience both in East and West Africa seems to prove that they do not possess the art of conciliation ; and when difficulties arise, they show little tact and are apt to precipitate serious trouble. A remarkable story of remorse comes to light in the suicide of Jesse Devore, an old man nearly ninety years old who lived in the country several miles from the town of Bridgeport W. Va. Forty years ago Devore murdered a. negro and for the past thirty years has been at times tormented in imagin- ation with gangs of negroes who pursued him to kill him for his crime. About twenty years ago he shot himself through the head in ordergtr‘ rid himself of haunting memories, but recovered. A year or two later he stood on the bank of a stream and struck himself on the heztd with a stone, knocking himself unconsciovs into the stream, where he would have drowned but for a passer-by who drag- ged him out more dead than alive. Devore made several other unsuccessful attempts at, suicide. Finally, on Thursday last he went to the house of a. neighbor named Bumgalrdner, where he put up for the night. After all the family had retired he got up, secured a rope and hanged him- self. It is estimated that the amount of land under cereal crop thls year 1‘n Manitoba is one million three hundred and eleven thou- sand acres, of which nine hundred and sixteen thousand mm. in wheah THEE GEBHA‘NS DEF E!) IN AFRICA. ElAETN’l‘ED RY HES CIHRIE He said as he entered the river, and pushed upward among the many islands, he was astonished at the great pains the Span- iard had taken to avoid being surprised by cruisers, which were constantly on the alert to capture slaving vessels. He saw at least 20 watch towers made of high piles, protect- ed against sun and rain and enabling the watchmen to observe the sea at a height of from 60 to 100 feet above the ground. A number of these watch towers were fixed in lofty trees. Each watchman had a power- ful spyglass, with which he was continually sweeping the horizon. Then there were other towers extending into the interior, within signalling distance of one another. Upon the appearance in the oiling of a. hos- tile sell, the news was telegraphed by sig- nuls in it few minutes from the coast for miles into the interior, and thus Pedro Blaneo and his agents were instantly informed that there was danger in the air. Then there was a great hustling of the hundreds of slaves who filled the great trad- ez's’ baracoons, or slave sheds, into the mam grove swamps, or s-rhere there was not one chance in a hundred of their presence being detected. If the vessels sent a. few bout loads of men ashore they found nothing in the sheds except bales of harmless merchandise, and Pedro Blanca was ready to receive them with the blandest of smiles and an apparently very hearty welcome, assuring them that, he was glad to receive visits from people of his own color, that he had quit slaving for a. living, and was now in legitimate commerce, and he hoped that they would come to see him often, At that very time he would probably have 2,000 or 3,00031aves out in the swamps. The slave Chasers could find no proof of his nefarious business, and off they would go to seek their prey in other directions. In a similar way the news was communi- cated from post to post of Blanco’s estab- lishment whenever one of his little vessels returned from the Western world for a fresh cargo. It would lie at anchor off the coast, take on a. little India-rubber, cocoanut oil, and other little articles of legitimate corn- merce, andwait for some dark night when nothing had been seen or heard of any cruiser, and then it would rapidly fill its hold with the poor wretches, who were tied together in the barracoons, and off it would start for America. Pedro Blanca was extremely fortunate. Now and then helost a. slave vessel, but the most of his cargoes of black people reached the Western world in safety and were sold at great profit to the traders there. He could afford to lose an occasional vessel, for the profits on a single cargo that safely reached America amounted to a small fortune. Pedro Blanco was when of education. He was born at Malaga, Spain, of good family, and had excellent advantages in his youth. He chose, however, to embark in a. disreputable business, because he saw in it; the prospects of a. great fortune. At first he conunanded a slave ship running from West Africa, to the \Vest Indies, where he sold his slaves. After a. few years he established himself in Africa, at the mouth of the Gallinas River, for the purpose of accumulating the cargoes there which his Each of his slave depots on 'the islands was in charge of an agent). Upon one of these islands near the mouth of the river, Blanca had his business headquarters,but he reslded miles up the river upon another island, Where, for a. long time, his sister shared With him business cares. There he lived in were to carry to all parts of the West Indies and the South American coast. In 1836 Captain Canot visited Pedro Blanca and wrote the best description of his establish- ment that we have. It was written, how- ever, in the blunt style of a. sailor, and undoubtedly he omitted a. great many in- teresting details. of a semi-harlmric prince. Further up the river, upon another island, was his seraglio, in which were his wives, who, after the custom of (he tribes in that neighborhood, had each a. separate dwelling. He built on the islands twelve large slave barracks or barracoons, each of which generally contain- ed from 100 Lo 500 slaves. The Walls of these barracks were made of a. double row of thick piles driven five feet into the ground and fastened together with strap iron. The roofs were of poles, with palm leaf thatch, which kept the harraeks comparatively dry and cool. Each of the barracoons was guard- ed by three or four Spaniards or Portuguese. Traces sun Found of the Big Establish- ment or l'ellro Blunt-o. A recent visitor to the Galliuas River, on the west coast of Africa, just north of Liberia, says a great many traces yet exist of the large establishments maintained by Pedro Blanca, when he was making his enormous fortune in the slave made, fifty years agm The story or Pmlh) Bhun‘o !s a remarkable one. Of the huudrczls u." m‘ n who for three centuries engaged in ie' Af1"c;1n slave trade, the Spaniard, Pom: Blanuo, towered above them all in the u'c tent and success of his operations. n~ “ Cal/pt. Canot described Pedro Blance as a. sunburned little man, who for fifteen years, had not left the mouth 01 the Gallinas River, and received with the most bounteous hospi- tality every white man who came his way. In 1839 Pedro Blanca gave up the business, and retired to Havana. with his fortune, said to have amounted to several millions of frames. This famous slave dealerwms known for a. long time as the Rothschild of \Vest Africa and his paper was current and accepted in the money max-ts of Europe. The king of the slave traders. lived many years to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. At last the business that had enriched him was completely sup- pressed and there is little new to remind, the world that Pedro Blanco ever lived ex. cept the ruins of his slave barracoons and of the little palace he built for himseif on the island in the Gallinas River. Among the natural productions of Gan- jam, India, says a foreign contemporary, is the Strychnos nux-voniica, a forest; tree of majcsiic appeaiance, bearing sea-green and golden colored fruit. In the pulp are em- bedded Lhe seeds from which strychnine is extracted. The fruit; and seeds are the, favorite food of the grotesque bird known as the rhinoceros horn-bill. The bird fattens on the poisrrnous seeds, and yet it is eagerly sought as game, and its flesh is said to be excellent; and perfectly innocuous as human fault GREATEST OF THE 6212!) S FLEET 0F SLAVE VESSELS OFF INTO THE JUNGLE, ALL THE LUXURY