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to bring down my collections and the rest of the "boys." 

 Here I learnt the sad news of Quasso's death. He had 

 recovered under treatment at Yei sufficiently to trek on to 

 Gondokoro. Just outside the station he again collapsed 

 and was carried in by John who chanced to find him lying 

 by the roadside, too weak to go on. He crossed the Nile 

 and so fulfilled the ambition that had cheered him on all the 

 days of our long journey, and then he died. Poor little 

 Quasso ! I had promised to bring him home to England. 

 I liked him well, for he had been my brother's faithful boy. 

 And now he has gone to join his old master on the longest 

 trek of all. 



From Gondokoro I went down to Khartoum where I 

 paid of! my fifteen remaining " boys," who under Galadima's 

 guidance went with the pilgrims to Mecca. Before leaving 

 Khartoum I dined with the Sirdar and Lady Wingate, an 

 honour I am not hkely to forget, for the occasion was deeply 

 impressed on my mind by the agony I suffered from a pair 

 of borrowed " pumps " which were many sizes too small 

 for my naturally large feet that had been rendered still 

 larger by the years of trekking. During dinner, however, 

 I got a little relief by shedding them under the table. 



From Khartoum I took train by the new line to Port 

 Sudan whence I sailed with Jose for England where we 

 arrived on February 1, just sixteen days short of the day 

 three years before when the Expedition left England. 



To sum up as shortly as possible the scientific results of 

 the Expedition, first of all must be placed the survey work 

 carried out in Nigeria by my brother and Talbot, which is 

 embodied in Map No. I. in this book. 



