DUFILE ASSAULTED. 333 2 ube: letters, as also a few presents for the Arabs. Hverything now depends on Kabréga proving compliant. But if all means fail, and he too refuses his assistance, it will still be possible to send 150 men through Mrili to Uganda, though force may have to be used. Kamisoa, Rionga’s son, has sent men to me, but they maintain that it is impossible for them to send letters direct to Uganda. Perhaps here too gentle pressure will be efficacious. JI have sent the men back with a great show of anger and without presents, and they promised to do their utmost.

So much for the state of things up to the present time. I have long kept up hope, but it now seems quite certain that we must expect absolutely nothing from the north. Therefore we shall try the south. ‘Till now I have succeeded in keeping my handful of men together. Who can guess what the future will bring ?

December 3, 1885.

The steamer, which arrived to-day, brings the news that Lado is not yet relieved. Rejaf has been attacked by a large number of Bari and Dinka, but they have been repulsed with a loss of about 500 killed and a large number of wounded. In a later assault, also, the Negroes lost a good many men. Rejaf is well fortified and provisioned, but all these fights avail nothing. I have therefore sent reinforcements once more, and repeated my orders for the people to retire. J have no news of any kind from Kabréga., Januarg 2, 1886.

To begin with, I wish you a happy New Year. Will it bring us luck also? Let me give a réswmé of the events of the last month, if | may call them such. On December 10 news reached me that Dr. Junker had arrived in Fagango with the porters I sent from here, and early on the 11th I steamed up-stream in the Khedive to fetch him. In the evening we were together in Wadelai. Two days later, the other steamer brought news from Dufilé that the troops in Rejaf had been successful in their operations against the Bari, and had taken -a number of cattle. The reinforcements sent from here had