n Tshaka's murdering hordes. It was broken up
in or about the year 1824 when the Europeans first came to the country,
and the remnants of many scattered tribes returned and settled under
their protection.

All this is history with which most people in South Africa are
familiar, but many do not know that some of the cannibals fled to
Basutoland where, amongst almost inaccessible mountains, they carried
on their horrible practices for many years.

It is a well-known fact that when men once surrender themselves to any
unnatural and brutal vice, the gratification of the abnormal instinct
thus acquired becomes the most imperative need of their nature. The
Falkland Islands case, as bearing specially upon the foregoing
narrative, may be mentioned. Some convicts escaped from the Falkland
Islands convict station, and succeeded in reaching the coast of
Patagonia. They then endeavoured to make their way to Monte Video, but,
having to keep along the shore so as to avoid the natives who would
have killed them had they ventured inland, were easily intercepted by
the Government cutter which was always dispatched in cases of the kind
to head off fugitives upon their only possible course. Of the party,
only one man was found alive. In their dreadful need the men had cast
lots as to who should be killed and eaten by the others, and this went
on until only the one man remained. His sufferings had been so horrible
that he was let off any further punishment, and simply brought back to
the Island to complete the term of his sentence. Some months after,
this man induced another to escape with him in a boat, and when the
boat was overtaken it was found he had killed his companion for the
purpose of eating the latter's flesh. This was apparent from the fact
that the supply of food which the fugitives had taken with them was not
exhausted.

UKUSHWAMA.

"No ghosts, they say.
What is a ghost?--
Nay, what are thoughts and stars and winds?
They cannot tell--they show at most
Those formal swathes the pedant binds
Across clear eyes, the while he plugs
The apertures of liberal lugs."

SHAGBAG on Dogmatism.

I.

I had been for two days endeavouring to frame a workable quarantine
scheme in respect of an outbreak of lung sickness amongst the natives'
cattle in several of those deep valleys which cleave the Xomlenzi range
from the Northern bank of the Tina River, and it was late in afternoon
when I reached the kraal of my friend Numjala, Head