He sat down in the bows with his face toward the river, and the boys laughed as they worked the levers.

“Ripping!” said Compton, feeling quite happy, as he touched his precious journal.

“As good as finding a new butterfly,” said Venning.

Mr. Hume nodded his head gravely several times, and then a smile came into his eyes.

“I guess,” he said, “we’ll have some good hunting.”

And good hunting they had after they had passed the Stanley Falls and were in the game country, stretching for hundreds of miles to the Zambesi.  Some day, perhaps, we may hear of the adventures they had in their long voyage before at last, a thousand miles off, they touched bottom in the shallows where the mighty Congo narrowed down to a stream that could be crossed at a jump.  From the Congo they marched to a tributary of the Zambesi, and at the Victoria Falls, after having gathered a store of ivory, they found an ox-wagon, which took them to Bulawayo; and near Bulawayo the two boys, now stalwart young men, took possession of a farm owned by Mr. Hume, to wait for the return of the Hunter from England, whither he had gone.  On his return they would go north, in order to keep their promise to pick up Muata, whom they left at an Angoni kraal, on another hunting expedition.

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