AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 January 1881, Page 2

AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

Stranger adventures have (writes the Daily Telegraph) seUom been recorded than these of a drowned negro fished up from the Seine, at Grenelle, the other day. The unfortunate man, driven to suicide by sheer want, had written down his story, sealed it up in a tin box, and secured the box to bis person, upon which it was found by the authorities at the Morgue. It appear* from his statement that his father was an African chief, tributary to the Negus, of Abyssinia, who, having risen in revolt against his suzerain, was killed in fight. Two of the

chief's sans, the elder of whom was^H suicide in question, were captured by^H Negus, bat contrived to effect their esc^^fl While wandering about in tbe marsh^^fl Bar3rl<Azrak the elder brother clirn^H a tree in order to surrey the surrouni^^fl country, and. looking about him, su Jd^^J perceived a huge boa- constrictor crnsl^^fl his brother to death in its coils. Ha^^H lost bis fellow fugitive in this tcrr^H manner he struggled onward through great swamp for seven weeks at len^^J reaching the Egyptian outposts, wb^H he was kindly received, and, after a day's repose, forwarded to Cairo by military intendnnce. The Khedive only relieved his want* bui paid passage from Alexandria lo Paris, wh^^J as his note book pathet'cally observos.^H thought he conM find a living. ' B^H he conclude^, 'here, as elcswbore, must be of some use in order to live— i^H I, alas ! have learned nothing. I pre^H therefore, a yiolent death to perish^H slowly by hunger'