CONCLUSION. 265 camels. On the Kaschef halting and our reaching him, I related the matter to him, and he repeated my threats as to any one attempting to injure me or my baggage animals, and turning to me, told me, he would give me other slaves to indemnify the owners, in case I found it necessary to shoot any for misconduct ; on my particular interference to obtain good treatment for the slavewomen, he at once declared the punishment of any ill-usage shown them to be irrevocably fixed at fifty blows of the nabut (bastinado). The poor girls now cast grateful looks at their deliverer, and I laughed at the jealous but powerless fury of their conductors, and at an after-time had the satisfaction to be recognised by some of these unfortunate women, and welcomed by them in the most kindly manner. We now, without any further strange adventure, passed over Gos Rajeb, through the meadow-lands of Butana, to which I intend again to revert in my "Journey to Mandera;" and by Halfaia to Chartum.

The Pascha also afterwards arrived at the same place, his longdetermined-on retreat having been carried out, as there were no laurels to be gained by keeping the field, and his presence was indeed much required in Scnnaar.