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