CONTENTS xix 



CHAPTER XIX 



FAGS 



I become village magistrate — Makowa, the god of practical jokes — 

 Sheikh Chabindji is a fond father — The Mongaiyat hills — The 

 tsetse fly operative again — Slaughter of game — The value of 

 beads — Adherence to tribal customs — Sultans mere landless 

 lords — The sheikhs are lazy — Many compliments . . . 246 



CHAPTER XX 



Wau — Its future — When Greek meets Greek — Local colour — Giant 

 eland — Administration of justice at Wau — A judgment of 

 Solomon and a cure for suicide — The day's work at Wau — An 

 old cock ostrich — -Building operations at Wau — Yambio's war- 

 drum — Impressing the " politicals " — A native elephant-slaying 

 machine — A modern John Baptist — Patrol work — The value of 

 missionary enterprise — Success of my gramophone — My orders 261 



CHAPTER XXI 



My "magic" receives a set back — Telegraph poles in the forest — 

 Count Teleki — Captain Percival — A pretty picture — Bok — His 

 pride humbled — The country to the north-west — Insolence of 

 the Dinkas — Teleki's audience — Mayar accompanies me to Wau 

 — I get my leave — I return to Cairo and hear of my appoint- 

 ment — Acting-Governor of tfelfa Province — My work at Haifa 

 — Various cases for trial — Minor interests ..... 276 



CHAPTER XXII 



I relinquish my post to the "real turtle" — And go patrolling — Nile 

 country — The bitter cold — The desert — " Terabil " — Bir el 

 Nakhla — The oasis of Taklis — Good going — Bir el Sheb — A 

 grim joke — Tudway Bey — Terfaui — ^The ruins at Selima — Sports 

 — An Arab fable 289 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Sandy plains — The entomologists' opportunity and a picture for an 

 artist — Traces of an oryx — God-laid and man-laid stones — 

 Beautiful pebbles — A salt-well and niggardly Nature — A long- 



