. CAFFRE LEOPARD SURPRISED BY ELEPHANTS. child of the sultan. 571 which he obeyed in taking a mans head off of whom he mightdream several times, and he was unscrupulous about the execu-tion of witches; but there were other decisions of his which in-dicated that, outside of the influence of his superstitions, hecould apply sound reasoning in dispensing justice. We will not weary the reader with the recital of -the triflingincidents of camping and village receptions, which were onlysuch as his own imagination may now suggest. Dr
. CAFFRE LEOPARD SURPRISED BY ELEPHANTS. child of the sultan. 571 which he obeyed in taking a mans head off of whom he mightdream several times, and he was unscrupulous about the execu-tion of witches; but there were other decisions of his which in-dicated that, outside of the influence of his superstitions, hecould apply sound reasoning in dispensing justice. We will not weary the reader with the recital of -the triflingincidents of camping and village receptions, which were onlysuch as his own imagination may now suggest. Dr. Living-stone left Casembes on the 11th of June, after having sufferedanother delay of more than a month by the dilatoriness of thatworthy gentleman. Marching almost due south a little morethan a month, he was rewarded at length, on the 18th of July,1868, by the discovery of one of the largest lakes of centralAfrica. He had not travelled much more than one hundredmiles from Casembe, no more than an average of three miles aday; and besides the tediousness of the journey, had en
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