DR. JUNKER’S DEPARTURE. 477 a AMADI FALLS, AND A PART OF THE GARRISON HEROICALLY CUT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE ENEMY—THE DANAGLA APPEAR IN THE NEIGH-BOURHOOD OF LADO, AND THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF KHARTOUM ARRIVES—CONCENTRATION OF THE TROOPS ON THE UPPER PART OF THE NILE—SOJOURN IN MUGGI AND DUFILE—ALLIANCE WITH -KABREGA ANNOUNCED—REJAF AND LADO ASSAULTED BY BARI AND THEIR CONFEDERATES—DR. JUNKER’S DEPARTURE—POST FROM ZAN-ZIBAR—FIRST NEWS RECEIVED OF EGYPT AND EUROPE AFTER THREE YEARS—DIFFICULTIES CONNECTED WITH THE RETREAT TO THE SOUTH —UGANDA BEATEN BY UNYORO—CASATIS DEPARTURE—DISCIPLINE BECOMES RELAXED—GLOOMY PROSPECTS.

WADELAI, December 1, 1885.

J INFORMED you in my last letter of January 25 that Dr. Junker, finding that the situation was becoming more and more dangerous, was preparing to go to the south, with the intention of taking up his abode with Anfina for the present, and trying to put himself into communication with the missionaries in Uganda. He left, after Captain Casati had returned to Ladd from Makraka, on January 23. Onthe 30th, the barges which had been sent to Bor returned without having effected anything, for the officers there had refused to give up Bor, because they had too many people belonging to them to march by land, and the barges at their disposal were too small and too few. They now asked for a reinforcement of three hundred men and large quantities of ammunition, neither of which I was able to give them. The vakil of the mudirié was satisfied with this answer, and brought me an inventory, from which it appeared that each officer had thirty to forty persons in his household. Bor must therefore be given up for lost. Meanwhile I sent a fresh supply of corn and some messengers with another order for the garrison to come here—with what result you will hear presently.

Being anxious at the absence of news from ana I sent an official there to bring me a true report of the state of affairs. Before his arrival, or rather because they heard he was coming, the officers resolved on a sortie, which was so