CONTENTS xvii 



CHAPTER X 



PAGB 



Game en route — Serut flies — Lake Fell and mosquitoes — Godelpus 

 Island^Up the river — -Two narrow escapes — Wau — Preparing 

 for the Sirdar — Cannibal Sultans — The Sirdar arrives — The 

 levee — A native dance — I fear blackwater fever — Two elephant 

 hunts — A buffalo— The African dawn — I reach Dem Zubeir — 

 My two subordinates . . . • . . . '125 



CHAPTER XI 



My house at Dem Zubeir — The Senussi bubble and the building of 

 the fort— I hold a levee — And enforce an order — The carrier 

 question — Our exchequei — A mild mutiny ends peaceably — Tib- 

 sherani Eff. — The importance of maps — An impressive welcome 

 — My Christmas dinner— Ivory merchants and government re- 

 gulations — Kossinga and its inhabitants — Nasr Andal and 

 others 137 



CHAPTER XH 



An arduous march — Chakchak — The Sultan Atiok Chick — The 

 Dinkas — I return by a different route — Big game — The elephant 

 and the cock — Nasr Andal — Sultan Musa Hamed's capital — 

 Two of the " walking-round-the-world-for-nothing fraternity"' — 

 Virgin country I49 



CHAPTER Xni 



I sit in judgment — Mahomed Meriki — Wasa — A herd of buffalo — 

 "The grandfather of buffaloes "—Gila — Ibrahim Dardug — Our 

 reception — Kafiakingi — Ibrahim Murad— The Bahr el Arab — ■ 

 A list of the game we saw on the march — The mines at Hofrat 

 el Nahas — An unpleasant duty — I take charge of a prisoner — 

 My party — Important rivers — One of our prisoners " dies " . l6l 



CHAPTER XIV 



Another prisoner escapes — Tibsherani Eff.'s letters— I doctor a mer- 

 chant — The Boru River — A lion — Ragaa — I search for iUicit ivory 



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