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Slatin Paslia regaled the party for an hour that afternoon 

 with vivid accounts of his thirteen years' captivity. He showed 

 them the well that he dug with his own hands and the courtyard 

 that he built in his prison home. 



The final day was made up of various functions, one of which 

 was at the Egyptian Club, where he impressed the Egyptian offi- 

 cers with the importance of not mixing politics with soldiering. 



The Colonel gathered the remaining members of his African 

 expedition around him at a lunch in the palace, and there were 

 many exchanges of friendship before farewells were said. The 

 guests included Sir Alfred Pease, who was Colonel Roosevelt's 

 first host in Africa ; Clayton Bey, of the Sirdar's staff, and Captain 

 Meredith, of the steamer Dal, on which the party came from 

 Gondokoro. 



A PAINFUL FAREWELL. 



The ex-President tried to make the affair as lively as possible, 

 but he was considerably moved when it came to shaking hands 

 with those whom he is not likely to see again for a long time. He 

 expressed the greatest admiration for Captain Cunninghame's 

 strenuous and unremitting labors, and those of the naturalists, by 

 reason of which the expedition had been such a marked success. 



After an inspection of the missions, under the guidance of 

 Bishop Gwynne, Colonel Roosevelt attended a reception at the 

 Grand Hotel, where he again met the of&cials of Khartoum. 

 Mro. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel were engaged most of the day in 

 packing up preparatory to leaving for Cairo, and were unable to 

 attend the functions, which, however, were graced by the presence 

 of many ladies. 



The band of the Twelfth Soudanese Infantry played a special 

 programme of native music, which is peculiarly weird and inspir- 

 ing, for the benefit of Colonel Roosevelt. Later a group of native 

 women gave an exhibition of dances peculiar to the Soudanese. 



In a speech at the Egyptian Ofl&cers' Club Colonel Roosevelt 

 advised the ofi&cers to drop politics while they were soldiers. He 

 was a soldier himself, he said, and a politician, but he never let 

 them intermix. 



