The difficulties with which Sir Samuel had to cope in annexing that country kept him in Gondokoro for a considerable time, and in the narrative of his stay there he introduces us to Abou Saood and his eccentricities (about which we have already heard a good deal in newspaper correspondence), the fire.t volume con cluding with his return to Khartoum. The advance south was undertaken with 212 officers and men, and instructions were given to the chief of the staff to look out for Livingstone. The difficulties were so great, however, that Sir Samuel was shortly afterwards obliged to return to Gondokoro. It is after this retreat that there oocurred the battle with the Baris, which is sufficiently interesting to be transcribed :—

The Baris crept forward without being ob served, until they arrived near the silent and sleeping camp. Then, with sudden shrieks and yells, they rushed forward in a mass upon the unsuspecting troops. A slight im plement may check an assault during the darkness of the night. The only prote*cti"u to the position was a simple line of thorn brandies laid in a row about twenty paces in the front, running parallel with the river The naked legs of the first line of the enemy must have become entangled in this unseen obstruction for a few seconds, which caused sufficient confusion to destroy the momen tum of the first rush forward. The sentries by the ravine immediately fired, and the sixty men who formed the cattle guard quickly responded, and poured a fire into the enemy's flank. The delay caused by the thorns was ouly momentary, but it had b-en sulhcieut to allow the troops to awaken and to clutch their muskets. Here was a ylorious oppoitunity for the gun, if loaded with can ister, and ready at point blank ran^e - The enemy were already at the rnuzslV The Egyptian artiijerynien fotsouk their piece and fled ignominiously to the vessels for pro' tection. Only one flue fellow had stood by the gun, and he pulled the lanyard when the crowd of natives were almost upon him Where were the unfailing English tub°s? An Egyptian tube had been placed in the vent in spite of all my orders. It missed hre. 