cataract or fall of the river, where it tumbles over
rocks."

"An' what would a river go tumbling off rocks for, Masther Dick? Why
don't it go along quietly?"

"Ah, you'll see when we get there," said Dick. "It's a fall like that
where you nearly got drowned, only hundreds of times as big."

"An d'ye expect me to get in a boat at a place like that, Masther Dick?
Now, by this and by that, ye don't if I know it."

"Never mind then, Dinny. You shall take your gun and shoot elephants.
You know what they're like?"

"Shure, I sin a picture o' one wance," said Dinny. "It was a little
thing wid two tails, one at aych ind; and the boy as showed me telled me
as they're made of ingy-rubber."

"Ah, yes, they're very little things," said Dick, laughing; and then
they went to their dinner under the tree.

That evening the new pet was well attended to; and the leopard, now
growing a fine sleek beast that loved to roll and gambol with the dogs,
given his evening meat; and the remains of the daylight were spent in
packing.

Next morning early, with the skin secure on the waggon-tilt, the sleek
oxen were once more in-spanned, and the waggon rolled merrily on towards
the falls of the Zambesi.

Four days trekking through a beautiful country brought them to where a
continuous vibrating roar was always in the air, and in the distance
what seemed to be one continuously changing cloud, which was lit up by
the sun in a wondrous succession of hues.

The boys grew excited with expectation; and Dinny's face became very
blank as he whispered to Dick,--

"Shure, the river don't always go on tumbling like that, Masther Jack,
do it?"

"Always, Dinny," said Jack, as he too listened, with a feeling of awe,
to the falling water.

"Thin it must be giving itself a moighty hard whack upon the shtones it
falls on, to make it roar like that," said Dinny in a serio-comic
fashion, and he went off to attend to the fire as, the General having
pointed out a capital place for a halt, Mr Rogers gave the word, and
the camp was rapidly formed.

They had come through plenty of beautiful scenery, but the rich verdure
and beauty of the palms, ferns, and other foliage-growths, watered as
they were by the soft hazy spray that came from the mighty falls, was
beyond anything they had yet seen, and fully justified Mr Rogers'
remark, half made aloud,--

"What a glorious place this world is after all!"

A strong thorn kraal was formed, and after a good