Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



ahead of her time, and it was sheer good luck 

 my catching her. If I hadn't I should have been 

 a month late — not through my fault, it is true — 

 but what would the powers that be have said on 

 my return ? Thus it came to pass that I left the 

 Shabluka in as great a hurry as I embarked on 

 her. 



I had a " top-hole " time in the ship, and I'll 

 board her again as soon as her owner is kind 

 enough to ask me. I hope that on some future 

 occasion we shall have the good luck to carry 

 through our original scheme devised for the un- 

 doing of a Mrs. Gray's waterbuck. 



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