vi CONTENTS 



unfriendly — Leave for Kukowa — A bad egg — A mysterious letter — lam boycotted 

 — The faithful Shua — My darkest hour — Fresh hope — Fatuma is kind — I turn 

 bullock-driver — Eack at Kaddai — Carrying the boat-sections to the Kowa-Baga — 

 Jose goes to Yo market for corn — A Tubu raid — We make a haul of oxen — A 

 night march ........... Pp. 65-85 



CHAPTER XXII 



The Passage op Lake Chad 



The sweets of revenge — Old 'carriers return — The Lowau's slaves enlist — Start 

 across the Lake — Reed-cutting — Hardships — We meet the Buduma Kachella — 

 KaTa-ragga, open sesame — The Budumas at home — We gain the eastern shore 

 and reach the Shari mouth— Talk of Lake Chad . . . .Pp. 86-105 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Up the Shari to Gulfei 



A heavy sea— Kuri Budumas — Provisions from Gosling — Travellers' tales — The 

 French salute — Description of Kanem — Giraffe Benisett Arabs — Arrival at 

 Gulfei — A royal reception — The Kotokos — Their fishing — The horses of West 

 Africa — A view of Haja-el-Hamis — History of Jaggra the Sultan Pp. 106-124 



CHAPTER XXIV 



From Gulfei to Fort Lamy 



I meet Captain Cotton — Some talk on Crusaders' ;irmour taken from theTuaregs — 

 The Wadai situation and Darf ur — Arrive at Fort Lamy — The Expedition together 

 again — The matrimonial affairs of the '■ boys'' — "Jaggra" comes on the scene 

 — Kurra gets '• chopped " — Kusseri— German energy — Gosling's trek from 

 Kaddai to Kusseri Pp. 125-144 



CHAPTER XXV 



From Fort Lamy to the Togbau Hills 



We leave Fort Lamy— The Banda tribe— Tiie Bahr-el-Ergig river — How I made my 

 Collections — The Baghirmi tribe— Death of " Wuka" — Fever — The Sara tribe — 

 A rhino hunt — Arrival at the Togbau Hills — A new species of Rock Dassie — 

 Aspect of country — History of Rabeh, with account of his destruction of 

 Kukowa — Gentil's mission — Battle of Togbau — Battle of Kouno — Voulet and 

 Chanoine — Rabeh returns to Dikwa— Meeting of Major Lamy and Gentil — The 

 Battle of Kusseri— Rabeh's death Pp. 145-177 



