THE DEATH OF MAVOOM One more day's journeying brought the party to the ruined Settlement, which they found in much the same condition as the Arabs had left it a few weeks before.

Fortunately the destruction was not nearly so great as it appeared.

The inside of the house, indeed, was burnt out, but its walls still remained intact, also many of the huts of the natives were still standing.
Messengers who left the canoes at dawn had spread the news of the rescue and return of the Shepherdess among the people of the neighbouring kraals, who flocked by scores to the landing-place.

With these were at least a hundred of Mr.Rodd's own people, who had escaped the clutches of the slaver-traders by hiding, absence, and various other accidents, and now returned to greet his daughter and their own relatives as they would have greeted one risen from the grave.

Indeed the welcome accorded to Juanna was most touching.