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ment, while riding from Kassala towards Sinkat, was 

 approached by a Hadendowa with a verbal petition for 

 the release of his brother who was undergoing a sentence 

 of two years' imprisonment for manslaughter. (He had 

 killed his man in some tribal row.) One of the two years 

 had already been served ; and, after consideration of the 

 case, the petition was granted and the unexpired period 

 of the sentence was remitted. Thereupon, without sign 

 of joy or gratitude, or even a civil word of thanks, the 

 petitioner turned and left! He was, however, brought 

 back by a member of the Staff, and on his boorish 

 demeanour being pointed out to him, sullenly raised a 

 hand in half-salute. 



In a maze of mental obfuscation, this Bceotian tribe 

 seems to imagine itself (so far as we can follow such 

 mentality) a race wholly independent of Turk and 

 Egyptian, or of British rule alike. There exists in this 

 passive contrariety no healthy index of manly "self- 

 determination," but merely dogged mental stagnation 

 and atrophy. 



GARGANEY YOUNG DRAKE. 



Shot December 3ist, 1913. In the featureless plumage of first year 

 a phase seldom or never seen in Europe. 



