CONTENTS xvii

CHAPTER X

PAGB Game en route—Serut flies—Lake Fell and mosquitoes—Godelpus Island^Up the river—-Two narrow escapes—Wau—Preparing

for the Sirdar—Cannibal Sultans—The Sirdar arrives—The

levee—A native dance— I fear blackwater fever—Two elephant

hunts—A buffalo—The African dawn— I reach Dem Zubeir My two subordinates . . . • . . . '125

CHAPTER XI

My house at Dem Zubeir—The Senussi bubble and the building of

the fort— I hold a levee—And enforce an order—The carrier

question—Our exchequei—A mild mutiny ends peaceably—Tib-

sherani Eff.—The importance of maps—An impressive welcome —My Christmas dinner— Ivory merchants and government re-

gulations — Kossinga and its inhabitants — Nasr Andal and

others 137

CHAPTER XH

An arduous march—Chakchak—The Sultan Atiok Chick—The

Dinkas— I return by a different route—Big game—The elephant

and the cock—Nasr Andal— Sultan Musa Hamed's capital Two of the " walking-round-the-world-for-nothing fraternity"'

Virgin country I49

CHAPTER Xni

I sit in judgment—Mahomed Meriki—Wasa—A herd of buffalo "The grandfather of buffaloes "—Gila— Ibrahim Dardug—Our

reception—Kafiakingi—Ibrahim Murad—The Bahr el Arab— A list of the game we saw on the march—The mines at Hofrat

el Nahas—An unpleasant duty— I take charge of a prisoner My party—Important rivers—One of our prisoners " dies "

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CHAPTER XIV

Another prisoner escapes—Tibsherani Eff.'s letters— I doctor a mer-

chant—The Boru River—A lion—Ragaa— I search for iUicit ivory

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