savages then attacked us with hordes numberless as

the flies that assemble on a dead bullock, and we

were swiftly engaged in a hand to hand conflict. W'e were upon the edge of destruction, and the jaws

of death gaped open for us, so that we made sure

of annihilation. Preeminent amongst the enemy was one who resembled an elephant in bulk, whose

ugly visage would put to shame a warthog's self. Him I saw a giant among his fellows sending to an untimely end many of the true believers. With a blow between the eyes I brought him to

the ground, and, seizing a loaded rifle that lay

beside him, I maintained a desperate fight for the

space of an hour, and while I thus busied myself in

the fray no less than eleven of the enemy fell

victims to my prowess. I was then summoned to

the aid of the second party who were sorely

pressed, but, after killing other four, I drove the enemy off and we built a zeriba in which to pass

the night. Then Amuri brought me cakes out of a bag and exquisite viands, and dainties to which I had long been unaccustomed : he kissed my knees and my head, and ceased not to abase himself before

me for a length of time, saying that I had been

the cause of their deliverance from the lips of death.

We did not cease to journey for a length of

time on the White Nile, until we arrived at the Port

of the Bahr el Ghazal. This Port is called Meshra

el Rek and beyond it vessels cannot proceed to the

south. We disembarked with our bales and our