462 LETTERS TO DR. SCHWEINFURTH.

to enable him to. travel home! What a long talk we shall have now!

May 27, 1884.

The Bahr-el-Ghazal mudirié has surrendered to the army of the Mahdi, after Lupton had been deserted by all his men.

Sheik Keremallah, commander-in-chief of the army of occupation, writes to me that the whole Sudan is lost, Khartum besieged, and that Hicks and Alaéddin have fallen, with 36,000 men, and he invites me to come to him at once and surrender. It would be folly to fight without rifles, without ammunition, without men that I can depend on, with Danagla before and behind me. I shall therefore go to the Bahr-el-Ghazal on Monday.

Junker has decided to try the route to Zanzibar through Mtésa’s residence. God guide him!

IT am sending this letter by him. Kindly keep a place for me in your thoughts.—Yours very sincerely, Dr. EMIN-BEY.

Je LUPTON’S LAST LETTERS—EMBASSY TO KEREMALLAH— WILD REPORTS—ACTS OF TREACHERY—EVACUATION OF THE OUTPOSTS BEGINS—NO ESCAPE !

—THE EXPOSED STATIONS BOR AND RUMBEK DESERTED—RETREAT TO AMADI—KEREMALLAH’S INCENDIARY LETTERS—BATTLES ROUND AMADI—EARTHQUAKES— LOSS AT BOR. | Lavpo, August 14, 1884.

I FINISHED my letter to you very hastily under the influence of the sad impression which the surrender of Lupton Bey and his mudirié to the Mahdi’s men made upon us all. We were hourly expecting our turn to come next, and to see the Kordofan hordes encamped before our gates. It is but right that I should now inform you of what has occurred since, cH I do not know how my letter is to reach you, if it does at all, | for we seem deserted and forgotten by all the world. I must,