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CHAPTER V 



PAGB 



Marching at night — A hon — The Messeria Arabs — " The incident of 

 the royal shirt" — I leave El Obeid — " Gyppie " — The Sudanese 

 soldier — English lack of tact — Moslem marriages — Sudanese 

 irregulars — Their endurance — The Arab soldier in the Hagana 

 — Native officers — Turks — Egyptian — Sudanese • • • 55 



CHAPTER VI 



I travel south again with Captain M'Murdo to become Inspector of 

 the Dinkas in the Fashoda province — Renk — Mosquitoes — 

 I bring rain — My nocturnal visitors — Big game shooting — A 

 waterbuck — Ordered to Taufikia — Fashoda — Fish-spearing — 

 Missionaries — Up the Sobat on an inspection tour — Itang — 

 Giraffe 7° 



CHAPTER Vn 



The Anuaks — A natjve officer stalks a tiang — The power of litterae 

 scriptat — My crew — I am sent to explore the Pibor — My force 

 and personnel — The sudd — Elephants and giraffe — Villages 

 on the banks — Cutting through the sudd 83 



CHAPTER Vni 



We meet with a hostile reception from the Agibbas at Nyanabec — 

 A very unpleasant conversation- — The effect of a gun — The 

 Agibbas — The dress and habits — On again .... 96 



CHAPTER IX 



We leave the gunboat and proceed in the Hyslop boat — And then on 

 foot — A lucky precaution — Homeward bound — A crocodile — 

 The sudd again — We meet a "relief party" — My difficulties — 

 Renk — I hunt crocodiles and hippos in an American canoe — A 

 crocodile story — Rudeness of the natives — The need of pomp 

 and ceremony — The administration of the Dinka country — 

 The Dinkas — I leave for the "front" — The friends I left 

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