XIV Contents.

CHArXER IV.

TUE SIIILLUKS AND THEIR CHIEF MEK. PAGE

Hunters of wild beasts — Treason — Yussuf Bey — Xugar with

elephant tusks — War — The Sobat — Wild boars and lions —The Sheikh of Sobat— The Mek of the Shilluks— On board — Manners and customs of the Shilluks . . .21

CHAPTEE V.

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Two celebrated hunters — Nine elephants killed — The Bordeen

j;oes to Gondokoro — On the Bahr-el-( ihazal — Plundering — Wc kill f(jur buffaloes — My Reiley rifle — Difficult naviga-

tion— lIippoi)otami — One wounded — Thirty-seven great elephants — Twentj^-threc blacks assassinated — Flight — Mcshra-el-Rek — Hunt with Anson and Haggi — Kempt and Giegler — Letter from Gordon — Enormons hippopo-

tamus killed ......... ,34

CHAPTER VI.

REPORT TO GORDON.

Report to Gordon — Stations on the Bahr-el-Ghazal — Denomina-

tion of the " vekil " — The cattle of the Sandch, Niain-Xiam of ihe Arabs — Bad news — TJnburied corpses — Slaves — The Sandch and tlie negroes .50

CHAPTER VII.

THE WEALTH OF TUE SOUDAN.

Natural products — Skins and cattle —Ebony .... 58

CHAPTER VIII.

DEATH OF ANSON.

In the shadow of the tamarinds — Two lions in flight — Buffaloes

and rhinoceroses — "Wild oxen — Fever — Anson's death — Arrival of Gordon ........ 65

CHAPTER IX.

HAVOC AMONG THE EUROPEANS.

Gaba-Shambe — Large monkeys — Haggi pulled down by a

leopard — He kills it — Old lions— The traveller Miani — New station — Aground — The botanist Witt dies — Un-