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Kossinga, so I had to dismount and walk a bit over 

 the sHmy black cotton soil. Imagine my astonish- 

 ment to see my party, five all told, just behind me. 

 They had walked quite forty miles the day before, 

 and at a great rate covered the distance this day. 

 The Jehadia were fine fellows. 



I passed a quantity of land cleared for cultivation. 

 To keep game out thin withes and branches are 

 fastened from tree to tree around it at about a height 

 of three feet six inches. When the antelope come 

 against this uimatural barrier, they fear a trap and 

 retire. 



Sultan Nasr Andal came running out to meet me, 

 explaining that the slaves were not slaves. I did 

 not know what he was talking about till Wahbi 

 Eff., hearing us, came out of his house. He had 

 been writing me a letter in English. I had not 

 known, till then, that he knew it at all. A fellah of 

 the fellahin, he had taught himself. 



The chief of the caravan was summoned and con- 

 victed himself. His tale of being an ambassador to 

 the Mudir from the Sultan of Rafai was too thin, 

 unsupported by credentials or presents. I referred 

 the matter to Wau, where it was thought advisable 

 to accept his story in spite of a letter to Sultan Nasr 

 Andal, which Wahbi Eff. had confiscated, in which 

 it said that the writer sent him (Nasr) two small 

 tusks, and "what he asked for." Two months later 

 I found the men of the party in the Mongaiyat 

 hills. They said the girls and boys (none of the 

 latter were more than twelve years old) had gone 



