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— Back to Dem Zubeir — Arrival of the President of the recruit- 

 ing Commission — MaLruk Eff. Fiki — I set out to explore the 

 West Nile — Netting game — An elephant — On the niarcli . . I75 



CHAPTER XV 



We reach the Pongo —I follow a wounded antelope and lose myself 

 — And find my party by the smoke of a fire — Elephant — I run 

 for my life — A useful lesson — Rubber vines — Our route — My 

 object attained — I return — Tibsherani has an adventure — A lion 

 and a forest fire — An "abode of love" — Dinka morality — 

 Strange country . ........ 



CHAPTER XVI 



Marching and camping arrangements — My daily duties — The young 

 wife and the bundle of straws — A Dervish movement — The 

 telepathy between natives — The Dem Zubeir elephant hunter 

 — Banda morals- — White ants — The need of zeribas — Fertitaui 

 fishermen — -Scenes on our way — The Kuru — A chance at a 

 rhinoceros .......... 



CHAPTER XVH 



I shoot a hartebeest — And resolve to " mak siccar '" in future — A 

 farewell letter from Tibsherani Eff. — Sultan Nasr Andal's slaves 

 are not slaves — Ilis courtly manners — Dinner with Wahbi Eff. — 

 Another sportsman's paradise — Sport and slaughter among the 

 hippos— Daala — Our first Mandalla village — We are the first 

 white men to enter it — Umbegago and a change in scenery — 

 Wet weather villages — -An amusing incident — " Is it lawful to 

 give tribute to Ciesar, or not ?" — Rivers great and small . .216 



CHAPTER XVni 



I shoot roan —My enthusiastic welcome — Gotelo— A Ijcautiful river 

 — A mad Sultan takes to the woods — We march with all military 

 precautions — Punitive expeditions — The wonder-tree of Khandak 

 Much ceremonial — My first buffalo — The modeikei, a new fruit 

 — Good-bye to shooting — Rocky territory . . . . -231 



