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CHAPTER XIX.

THE FCNGI3.

PASK Sennaar — Ethiopian antinuity — The Blue Nile — The Fungis

— Fertile soil — Fine-looking and good population — Death of the Re Galantuomo — Flag hung with crape in the desert — Low water — Karkog — - Trade — Roseres — Baobab — Fazoglu — Gold — Famaka — Anthropology — Revolution in the Galla country — !Mount Agaro — The Tumat — Fires —

Harif . . ' lol CHAPTER XX.

FADASr.

Kasan — Millions of starlings — Wild animals — The natives and

their gold — Benishangal — -The Galla country — Our flag — Marno — Fadasi — A Galla market — Salt — The Aman Xegroes — Brigandage — Massacres — The Gurguros . . 162

CHAPTER XXI.

THE SLAVE MONOPOLY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

The Yabus — Road by the Galla — The Sheikh 'of Fadasi — A

month of expectation — Insuperable difficulties — We leave Fadasi — Arrival at Khartoum — Departure of Matteucci — The Sheikh of Belinguan and the Sobat — Preparations for the Sobat — Stoppage of a caravan of slaves — Monseigneur Comboni — The slave monopoly of the Government — Inter-

view with Gordon . . . . . . . .171

CHAPTER XXII.

REVOLUTION IN THE BAHR-EL-GHAZAL.

Arrival of Junker — Enrolments— Everything ready — Money,

doora, arras abundant — Wealth of produce — I do not go to the Sobat — An official fiom Fashoda — Revolution in the Bahr-el-Ghazal — Suleiman — Agitation at Khartoum — A steamer stranded — Gordon in perplexity — Arrest of rebels — Sequestration of cases- — The masters of the seribe — My little troop — Forces of Suleiman . . • . .180

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE WAR AGAINST THE SLAVERS ON THE GAZELLE KIVER.

Farewell to Gordon — Hurricane — Forgotten post — Capture of a

daliabia — Ismailia — Meeting with Ernin Bey — Arrival at

Fashoda — Slaves disembarked — The Sultan of the Shilluks

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