— 24 — us to procure her a hippopotamus. Nur Angara and a man called Rabeh, accordingly, shot one for her, as the men she had with her knew not how to handle a rifle with accuracy and precision.

While we were at the village of Shol one of the Senhora's maids and her dog died; she caused them to be embalmed and put in a box; then she despatched them to Khartoum, whither she shortly afterwards directed her steps.

We reached the land of the Nyam-Nyams early on the twenty fifth of July 1864. I presented a handsome gift to the King Tikma of a soup basin decorated with a device of gold : so pleased was he with the present that he would place it upon his head, and use it as a crown on state occasions : in return he made a great repast for us, killing a hundred of the fattest dogs that were being prepared for his own personal use. I then repaired to the house of my wife Ranbu, and commenced to buy and sell. In this country it was the custom to expose for sale in the markets all those criminals who had committed such offences as theft and adultery. These are then slaughtered like goats and sold for food. I redeemed all such men as I could find who would be able to carry arms, until I had a force of five hundred men, whom I armed with firearms, teaching them how to make use of them. But the Sultan Tikma was afraid of me, because of my power, and consulted his priests who