An elephant killed.

Native game-laws.

Rumour of Baker's Expedition.

Christmas dinners.
_11th October, 1868._--From Kizinga north the country is all covered with forest, and thrown up into ridges of hardened sandstone, capped occasionally with fine-grained clay schist.

Trees often appear of large size and of a species closely resembling the gum-copal tree; on the heights masukos and rhododendrons are found, and when exposed they are bent away from the south-east.