had entirely disappeared

   , and the animal was clearly much distressed.

   Then, all of a sudden, the end came.

   They had swallowed each other!

   Not a vestige of either was left!

   This duel was a wonderful and shocking sight, and was therefore withdrawn, by request, as the patrons of the Gardens are directly interested in the morality of the establishment.

   CHAPTER VII.

   AMONG THE LO-GROLLAS.

   How to escape from our perilous position on the banks of a pestilential stream, haunted by catawampodes and other fell birds of prey, now became a subject for consideration. Our object, of course, was to reach the people of the Lo-grollas, through whose region, according to the prophecy, we must pass before finding the Magician that should guide us to the mummy. Our perplexity was only increased by the discovery that we were surrounded on every side by the walls and houses of a gigantic city. Stealing out by the canal as we had entered, we found to our comfort that this must be the very city mentioned by Theodolitê. As the seeress had declared, a deep and noisome night always prevailed, only broken here and there as a wanderer scratched one of Bryant & May's matches and painfully endeavoured to decipher the number on the door of his house. The streets, moreover, were strewn and interwoven with long strings of iron fallen from the sky.

   '

    The people who wire themselves with wires

   ,' whispered Leonora; 'what do you think of my interpretation

    now

   ?'

   'I shall inquire,' I answered, and I

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