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 398 DICK SANDS, THF. BOV CAITAIX. Thcre tnust be wonderful discoveries to bc madeheicif only Ihose good pcople will let me." The " good pcople " rcferrcd to were Negoro and Hairis, who had rcstored him much of the libcrty of which Dkk Sands had foiind it iiccessary to deprive him. With free- dom to roam and in possession of his tin box, Bencdîct would hâve bcen amongst thc most conlented of meo, had it not becn for the loss of his spectacles and magnifying- glass, now buricd with thc King of Kazonndé. Kedticed to the necesstty of poktng eveiy îruect almost ïnto hii^cf before be could discover its charactçristics, he wquld hn% «acrificed much.to rei:oyer or. replace hi^^gUsM^Jiiit M such articles were notto be procured at anjr pric^kt (Antentéd faimself with the permission to^go'vbvr^hB pleased within the Hmits of the palÏ3ad& His h ae t ia f Icnew him weU eqougb to be satisfîed that he would. aufcf no attempt to escape, and as the enclosure was neaily 9 mile in circumference, containing many shnibs and tree» and buts with thatched roofs, besides beîng intersected by A ninning stream, it atforded him a very fair scope for his researches, and who should say that he would not discovo' some novel spécimen to which, in the records of entomolo* gîcal science, his own name might be assigned? Ifthusthe domain of Antonio Alvez was sufficient t» «atisfy Benedict, tolittle Jack it might well seem immense; But though allovved to ramble over the whole place as he liked, the child rarcly cared to leave his mother ; he woul be continually inquiring about his father, whom he had noif so long been expecting to see : he would ask why Naq and Hercules and Dingo had goneawayand Icft him; and perpetually he would be expressing his woader wherp Dldf could be, and wishing he would come back again. Mn^ Weldon could only hide her tears and answer him by C^resse^. ... Nothing, however, transpîred to g^ve the least ÂntimatioQ that anyof the prisoners were-to be treated othenvîse than they had been upon the joumey from the Coanza. £xcept> ing such as were retalned fgr old Alvez' personal service^ ail the slaves had been 9old, ^nd th,e stpt:^^ouses we^ now