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of resisting a dervish attack than Souakin. Took 

 tickets for Suez, and boarded the steamer at 11 a.m., 

 thereby severing my connection with the Sudan. I 

 calculate that after paying off my Hindustani servants 

 I shall still have 200 in hand out of the 960 with 

 which I landed, so that excluding the cost of stores 

 and outfit in England and India, this trip of a little less 

 than nine months has cost me 750. Including those 

 charges, the estimate of 100 per mensem, which I 

 have always understood to be the usual cost of 

 African shooting, appears to be correct. 



