No new invention or increase of power on the part of Christians seems to disturb the self-complacent belief that ultimately all power and dominion in this world will fall into the hands of Moslems.

Mohamad will appear at last in glory, with all his followers saved by him.

When Mr.
Stanley's Arab boy from Jerusalem told the Arab bin Saleh that he was a Christian, he was asked, "Why so, don't you know that all the world will soon be Mohamadan?
Jerusalem is ours; all the world is ours, and in a short time we shall overcome all." Theirs are great expectations! A family of ten Whydah birds _( Vidua purpurea)_ come to the pomegranate-trees in our yard.

The eight young ones, full-fledged, are fed by the dam, as young pigeons are.

The food is brought up from the crop without the bowing and bending of the pigeon.