ARRIVAL AT WADELAI.' 485 in expeditions after corn, tending the sick—the wounded from Amadi—and administrative business. Captain Casati, who had left Lad6 later than I did, overtook me in Laboré. Letters reached me there from Dr. Junker, telling me that he had not been successful in establishing the communication he desired or in forwarding letters, though he went in person to Kamisoa, Rionga’s son, and met some of Kabréga’s men there. A post came also from Lado with the announcement that a Bari dragoman, whom the Danagla had carried off from Makraka, had arrived there. He had gone with them on their retreat to the Bahr-el-Ghazal as far as Gosa, and had then escaped. At the same time, all kinds of reports spread through the province that the Danagla on the Bahr-el-Ghazal . _were at war with foreigners and Negroes; even the names of the commanders were given.

After sending off about four hundred ardebs of corn to Lado, I went at length to Dufilé, in consequence of representations made to me officially by the Major in command of the second battalion there, that he found it very difficult to send corn to Lado, and could not also supply us at Khor Ayu. After I arrived, the transport from Dufilé continued. Captain Casati went on to Wadelai, and I thought of following him, partly to see if I could not restore my former relations with Kabréga, and send letters to Uganda, Zanzibar, and Egypt, and partly to relieve Dufilé a little, for it was overcrowded. I left on July 9, and arrived at Wadelai on the 10th; this is to be our headquarters until better times come.

As we are cut off from all communication even with Makraka, our only sources of information are, of course, rumours. ‘To show what they are like, I give you a translation of a letter sent to me from Ladd on August 10, 1885 :—‘‘ We have questioned Chief Kenyi about the rebels, and he tells us that they went to Wau, and have been driven off from there; he has heard that Bakhit Bey and Nur Bey are there, and an Englishman of high rank with them. The inhabitants of Fashoda are said to have risen, but also large numbers of soldiers to have arrived there. After the festival the soldiers will go to Bor, as you ordered. We hear from the people that the Danagla have thrown the cannon they captured at