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CHAPTER XVI. 



April 6. To-day a great change has taken place 

 in the arrangement of our several parties. Though 

 Ranfurly's dysentery is becoming arrested, he is so 

 prostrated by it that its effects are not likely to pass off 

 immediately, and it is necessary that he should remain 

 under my immediate observation. He has been there- 

 fore brought down quietly on horseback the short distance 

 to our camp this morning, to remain with us until he is 

 strong enough to rejoin Arkwright, or until our arrival 

 at Kassala, where a general reunion is to take place 

 about April 23 or 24. 



The three others have gone some hours' journey 

 together up the river to see what game is to be found 

 there. Step by step we have gradually ascended the 

 river in spite of the opposition and fear of our men, and 

 as we have found more game the higher we have gone 

 there is eveiy reason to expect that the latest arrivals 

 will meet with great success in their new ground. 

 Hadji Basheer tells us the rather annoying news that 

 during the night after Vivian's departure from Embe- 



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