A correspondent from Mashonaland describes in the St. Tames's Gazette
on Monday, one of the weirdest of discoveries. There is in that wild region a hill called "the Hill of the Foot- steps," on the rock of which are imprinted a crowd of foot- steps, many human, many of wild animals, all turned towards the top of the hill, towards which in some past century the -whole crowd had evidently been fleeing in the greatest con- fusion. Of course the most natural interpretation is that the crowd was fleeing from some rapidly rising flood, and that the rock of the hill has hardened since the date at which this crowd of refugees rushed upwards to its summit. Bat, of course, no trace remains to tell us what the issue of this moment of agony was. It is just as if we could hear an isolated scream of agony coming from the depth of centuries ago, without hearing anything of the tragic causes or any. thing of the tragic issue.
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