At Ladb.

93 board tlie steamer just arrived two officers of tlie Royal Engineers of the Englisli army, . Messrs.

Chippendale andWatson, whom Gordon had requested from England, by mediation of the Khedive, to aid in the construction of plans and geographical maps.

I returned to Lado with the new arrivals, and remained there for five days to transport materials and demolish the huts of Gondokoro, of which place only the name was to exist any more. M. Linant de Bellefonds Avas received with great courtesy by the Colonel, who offered him an escort to take him to Mtesa, while Watson and Chippendale were to explore the lakes.

The Talaliauin being finally ready for departure, I took leave of the Colonel and quitted Lado on November 2-Jth, 1874. The voyage was sufficiently brief and fortunate, because the Talah(iuin,n excellent vessel, had the wind in its favour, and the necessary pressure from the boilers never failed, I myself superintending attentively the work of the engine-drivers. At Jebeliu, November 31st, I met the Khcdke reascending the river ; this steamer, constructed at Gondokoro in the time of Baker, of small dimensions and only twenty-horse poAver, resisted Avith great difficulty the current and the contrary winds, haAnng also to tow tAvo nugars.

Having made the Khedice stop, I at length had letters from Europe ; for seven months I had been Avithout news, because Colonel Gordon's agent in Cairo AA'as ignorant that there existed a government postal service, and ahvays awaited some opportunity of sending them. But the joy I promised myself was soon turned into sorroAv by the announcement of the death of one of my sons.

Among the passengers in the Khedive, I found the naturalist, Mr. Marno, of Vienna, Avhom the Geographical Society had sent to Gordon. There AA'as also on board Mr. Han sal, the Austrian Consul at