This youthful prodigy was placed in a room by itself, with guards around it to prevent anyone having converse with the supernatural visitant.

In the morning, however, it was gone, and in its place was found a bundle of dead leaves.

The fetish men having been consulted declared that this signified that Coomassie itself would disappear, and would become nothing but a bundle of dead leaves.

This had greatly exercised the credulous there.
Two days after his arrival Frank went down at sunset to bathe in the river.

He had just reached the bank when he heard a cry among some white soldiers bathing there, and was just in time to see one of them pulled under water by an alligator, which had seized him by the leg.