AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2100, 16 November 1880, Page 3

AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

Stranger adventures have (writes the “ Daily Telegraph”) seldom been recorded than those of a drowned negro fished up from tie Seine, at Grenelle, the other day. The unforiuna'e man, driven to suicide by sheer want, had written down his story, sealed it up in a tin box, and secured the box to his person, upon which it wan found by the authorities at tho Morgue. It appears from his statement that his father was an African chief, tributary to the Negus of Abyssinia, who, having risen iu revolt against his suxorain, was killed in fight. Two of the chief'o sons, tho older of whom was the suicide in question, were captured by the Negus, but contrived to effect their escape. While wandering about in the marshes of Bar-el-Azrak the older brother climbed a tree in order to survey tho surrounding country, and, looking about him, suddenly perceived a huge boa-oonstriotor crushing his brother to death in its coils. Having lost his fellow fugitive in this terrible manner ho struggled onward through the great swamp for seven weeks, at length reaching the Egyptian outposts, where ho was kindly received, and, after a few days’ repose, forwarded to Cairo by the military intondar.es. Tho Khedive not only relieved his wants but paid his passage from Alexandria to Paris, where, as his note book pathetically observes, he thought ho could find a living. “But,” he concludes, “here, as elsewhere, one must be of some use in order to live—and I alas 1 have learned nothing. I prefer, therefore, a violent death to perishing slowly by hunger,"