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A SEcoND ATTEMPT TO JOURNEY TO THE NORTH— WE ARE CAUTIONED 
AGAINST MEETING HOSTILE TRIBES — LARGE MURLE VILLAGES — WANDO- 
ROBBO — A SMALL LAKE — THREATENED ATTACK BY THE KERE — RED 
Tape — HanpsoME NATIVES OF KERE— NETTING CATFISH — BUKI 
— LarGE TREES — ARRIVAL AT GUMBA— THREE Harp Days’ WorK 
MARCHING THROUGH AN UNINHABITED COUNTRY WITHOUT GUIDES — 
MARSHES AND BLAck Forests, ANNOYING WEEDS AND DENSE JUNGLES. 
“TULY 24. Early this morning I set off with twenty-nine 
boys, Lagoisi, and ten donkeys, — half of the latter 
loaded, the other five in reserve. My boys did not like 
to make this trip, and I do not blame them, as I hardly 
enjoy the prospect myself of the rough work ahead, having 
had so much of it. The Rusia and Murle both advised 
me not to attempt to go through the hostile tribes to the 
north, saying that with such a small force we should cer- 
tainly be cut to pieces. It was the work and not the 
danger which my boys minded; they had rushed about so 
much through all sorts of unknown places, and been in so 
many dangerous positions, that they had forgotten what 
fear meant. We marched twenty miles, and camped just 
to the east of the Murle villages we had previously visited. 
“ Fuly 25. After marching two hours, this morning, we 
came to large villages of the Murle that I had not seen 
before, situated on the banks of the river. Three of them 
contained about two hundred houses each, and _ besides 
these there were several smaller villages on the western 
