Seven Years in the Soudan.

the (lay after, all bruised and shaken, and accompanied only by my guard. , 7 •/ The governor of Berber was al)sent, ;ind the rakd, his representative, provided lodghigs for ns. Our commander, who had returned to Khartoum from Gondokoro, telegraphed that he would come to meet ns.

During the time of our stay at Berber, we were occupied with the division of the baggage, and its shipment on the nuqa which the governor had made IX ill I .1 ready for us. Four days afterwards we were ]omed by Colonel Gordon, who had come by steamer. He ordered that we should hold ourselves ready to set out for Khartoum next morning, and, after having transported all our luggage on board, we embarked the same evening. The Colonel wished to take the land route in order to carefully watch the slave trade.

The iourney from Berber to Khartoum was rather slow in consequence of the small power of the steamer and the nmvvn which had to be towed. We passed