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away, and be enormous. As a matter of fact, I located 

 it in a place a couple of hours' walk from Wau, and it 

 consisted of about fifty head. The secret had been 

 well kept. At the time that the herd was supposed to 

 live far off many officers bought heads brought in by 

 Dinkas or Jurs for sale. The carpenter was to make a 

 box for a couple bought for presentation to a club ; 

 but unfortunately his house, and with it the horns, 

 got burned. He explained his loss to the officer con- 

 cerned, who, not listening, missed the fact that the 

 man mourned the loss of his mother-in-law, who had 

 been burned too. " Never mind," said the officer, 

 " it's the work of the Lord (shugal robona) ; there 

 are plenty more to be had." The man dissolved into 

 tears — the prospect of another mother-in-law doubtless 

 augmented his grief. 



The administration of justice would have aston- 

 ished a lawyer given to picking legal holes in all judg- 

 ments. In the records of punishments one found that 

 the punishment for murder unadorned by any expla- 

 nation ranged from fourteen days' imprisonment to 

 hanging. The wedding of civilisation with native 

 custom produced these extremes. The only prisoner 

 on a long term we had was blind. Otherwise, he 

 would have escaped like all the others. Where a run 

 of a hundred yards could plant a man in a pathless 

 forest, where he could carve a domain for himself in 

 its lonely depths and live free, why should a *' lifer " 

 remain in durance ? 



Once a prisoner broke from his gang and escaped. 

 The policeman in charge defended himself by saying, 



