ds which his lips refused to articulate.
Only the remnants of his clothing marked him as a civilised being. The
blacks who had fed him sat round to watch the meeting with most
gratified and delighted expressions.

Howitt waited for a few days to give King an opportunity of recovering
his strength, that he might show them where the bodies of his
unfortunate leaders lay, that the last sad duty to the dead might be
performed before they left the place.

Burke's body had been dragged a short distance from where it originally
lay, and was partly eaten by the dingoes (wild dogs). The remains were
carefully collected, wrapped in a Union Jack, and placed in a grave dug
close to the spot.

* * * * *

A few weeks later the citizens of Melbourne, once again aroused to
extravagant enthusiasm, lined the streets through which the only
survivor of the only Victorian Exploration Expedition was to pass.

'Here he comes! Here he comes!' rang throughout the crowd as King was
driven to the Town Hall to tell his narrative to the company assembled
there.

'There is a man!' shouted one--'There is a man who has lived in hell.'

* * * * *

A few months later Howitt was again sent to Cooper's Creek to exhume the
bodies of Burke and Wills and bring them to Melbourne. They were
honoured by a public funeral, and a monument was erected to their
memory--

'A statue tall, on a pillar of stone,
Telling its story to great and small
Of the dust reclaimed from the sand-waste lone.'

_THE STORY OF EMUND_ (A.D. 1020)

THERE was a man named Emund of Skara; lawman in Western Gautland, and
very wise and eloquent. Of high birth he was, had a numerous kin, and
was very wealthy. Men deemed him cunning, and not very trusty. He passed
for the man of most weight in West Gautland now that the Earl was gone
away.

At the time when Earl Rognvald left Gautland the Gauts held assemblies,
and often murmured among themselves about what the Swedish king was
intending. They heard that he was wroth with them for having made a
friendship with Olaf, King of Norway, rather than quarrel. He also
charged with crime those men who had accompanied his daughter Astridr to
Norway's king. And some said that they should seek protection of the
Norse king and offer him their service; while others were against this,
and said that the West Gauts had no strength to maintain a