71 CHAPTER IX.

HAVOC AMONG THE EUROPEANS.

Gaba-Shambe — Lar'e monkeys — Haggi pulled down by a leopard — He kills it — Old lions — The traveller Miani — New station — • Aground — Tlic botanist Witt dies — IJnhealtliiness of Gondokoro — Death of Linant de Bellefonds — The Sultan jNItesa — Colonel Long.

Gajja-Shambe was then composed or some fifteen lints, temporary buildings, the work of the crews of the nugars awaiting their cargo, but afterwards abandoned as subject to inundations. I found three nugars there, but the site being too low I continued to ascend the river, till, having found a more elevated position, I stopped in the midst of an immense forest.

Shortly afterwards we were rejoined by the nugars and the dahabia left on the way, and we set to work with all the men to cut down trees. For a few handfuls of doora we were assisted by the natives, who had flocked from the country round, in cutting and transporting the wood destined to build the granaries in the station that was to be planted there. In the brief space or a fortnight a large tract of land was planted with doora, and an orchard was cultivated, speedily transforming the place into the site of possible habitation. The station rose in the middle of a park-like enclosure, filled with every kind of game.

Some large monkeys came in hundreds very near to the station, making such a terrible noise at night that it was impossible to close our eyes. In