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at Kissoona that evening. Soon after three o'clock the head of their caravan appeared emerging from the forest, and in a few minutes I had welcomed Pearson and Litchfield. Felkin was still at Keroto with their dragoman, who was dying. Both Pearson and Litchfield were suffering from fever, but we sat up talking and smoking for .many an hour. The THE NILE AT FCNVEIRA.

following morning we retraced our steps towards Foweira, stopping at the village of the chief Amfina.

Felkin was able to join us in the evening (the dragoman having died the previous day), and I have since travelled with him many thousands of miles by land and by sea, and have shared many a toil and danger with him.

On reaching Mruli in December, and finding that