Management kept the board of directors completely in the dark.

Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.

This conduct may probably be uphanded as injurious to my own views ; if it be so, it is at least the natural offspring of my judgment.

Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449.