MURDER OF JENNER 



approximately equal distances from each other along 

 a trail, but it would have been an impossible work 

 for any uncivilised native to have completed. But 

 to continue. We were much disappointed to find 

 Liboyi stone-dry, but I decided to take our midday 

 rest here, and proceed again in the afternoon. This 

 I did, and while waiting for lunch, went down into 

 the swamp and took some photographs. The interior 

 was filled with dry bush and dead trees, forming a 

 jungle which was honeycombed with elephant paths 

 from side to side. It was here that the late Mr. 

 A, C. W. Jenner was murdered in 1905, He was 

 attempting the same journey as I was now carrying 

 out, and his object was to explore the Lak Dera 

 and the Lorian. He passed through Afmadu and 

 followed the old trail that leads past Tubtu to 

 Robleh and Liboyi. He camped here during a 

 thunderstorm, and unwisely collected the rifles of 

 his escort and placed them in his tent in order to 

 keep them from the wet. A party of Mohammed 

 Zubheir warriors, who had been following him, 

 attacked him suddenly during the night and murdered 

 him together with his followers, of whom only three 

 escaped in the bush and returned to tell the tale, 



I was therefore not sorry to leave this ill-omened 

 place the same afternoon. At first I followed what 

 seemed to be a well-marked trail, but, after going 

 about one hour due west, I saw it was used only 

 by giraffes and elephants, and fearing lest I should 

 find no water I determined to march due north ; so 

 leaving the trail I struck out through the bush in a 

 direction at right angles to that from which we had 

 come. I felt the responsibility of taking my men 

 thus through an unknown country, especially since 



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