xvi CONTENTS CHAPTER V PAGB Marching at night—A hon—The Messeria Arabs—" The incident of the royal shirt"— I leave El Obeid—" Gyppie "—The Sudanese soldier— English lack of tact—Moslem marriages—Sudanese irregulars—Their endurance—The Arab soldier in the Hagana —Native officers—Turks—Egyptian—Sudanese • • • 55 CHAPTER VI I travel south again with Captain M'Murdo to become Inspector of the Dinkas in the Fashoda province—Renk—Mosquitoes I bring rain—My nocturnal visitors—Big game shooting— A waterbuck—Ordered to Taufikia—Fashoda—Fish-spearing Missionaries—Up the Sobat on an inspection tour—Itang Giraffe 7° CHAPTER Vn The Anuaks—A natjve officer stalks a tiang—The power of litterae scriptat—My crew— I am sent to explore the Pibor—My force and personnel—The sudd—Elephants and giraffe—Villages on the banks—Cutting through the sudd 83 CHAPTER Vni We meet with a hostile reception from the Agibbas at Nyanabec A very unpleasant conversation-—The effect of a gun—The Agibbas—The dress and habits—On again .... 96 CHAPTER IX We leave the gunboat and proceed in the Hyslop boat—And then on foot—A lucky precaution—Homeward bound—A crocodile The sudd again—We meet a "relief party"—My difficulties Renk— I hunt crocodiles and hippos in an American canoe— A crocodile story—Rudeness of the natives—The need of pomp and ceremony—The administration of the Dinka country The Dinkas— I leave for the "front"—The friends I left behind me 109