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PAGE — Back to Dem Zubeir—Arrival of the President of the recruit-

ing Commission—MaLruk Eff. Fiki— I set out to explore the West Nile—Netting game—An elephant—On the niarcli . . I75

CHAPTER XV

We reach the Pongo —I follow a wounded antelope and lose myself —And find my party by the smoke of a fire—Elephant— I run

for my life—A useful lesson— Rubber vines—Our route—My object attained— I return—Tibsherani has an adventure—A lion and a forest fire—An "abode of love"—Dinka morality

Strange country . ........

CHAPTER XVI

Marching and camping arrangements—My daily duties—The young

wife and the bundle of straws—A Dervish movement—The

telepathy between natives—The Dem Zubeir elephant hunter —Banda morals-—White ants—The need of zeribas— Fertitaui

fishermen—-Scenes on our way—The Kuru—A chance at a

rhinoceros ..........

CHAPTER XVH

I shoot a hartebeest—And resolve to " mak siccar

'" in future—

A

farewell letter from Tibsherani Eff. — Sultan Nasr Andal's slaves

are not slaves—Ilis courtly manners—Dinner with Wahbi Eff. Another sportsman's paradise—Sport and slaughter among the hippos—Daala—Our first Mandalla village—We are the first

white men to enter it—Umbegago and a change in scenery Wet weather villages—-An amusing incident— " Is it lawful to

give tribute to Ciesar, or not ?"— Rivers great and small . .216

CHAPTER XVni

I shoot roan —My enthusiastic welcome—Gotelo—A Ijcautiful river —A mad Sultan takes to the woods—We march with all military

precautions— Punitive expeditions—The wonder-tree of Khandak Much ceremonial—My first buffalo—The modeikei, a new fruit —Good-bye to shooting— Rocky territory . . . . -231