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whom the Sudan Government were on such bad terms 

 that they were blockading the Lado enclave. In the 

 exchange of names that followed our handshake he 

 told me that he was Count Teleki. I did not catch 

 the name. Even had I done so, I would not then have 

 realised that I stood in the presence of one of the 

 foremost of explorers — the discoverer of Lakes Rudolph 

 and Stephanie. To my inquiries he told me that his 

 advent should have been heralded by letters from the 

 Sirdar and Slatin. He had come on a shooting trip, 

 his chief quarry being one of the giant eland. He did 

 not shoot one, unfortunately for him. It was very 

 game of him to come so far. He was over sixty, and 

 the promise of his younger days, as seen in the pic- 

 tures of von Huhnel's book, had been fulfilled — he 

 was enormously stout. From the local sheikh I 

 gathered that his best plan would be to go north-west 

 at once to the village where the eland were. He did 

 so, but in the meantime Captain Massey (Royal Irish) 

 had got there and shot a couple, not knowing that the 

 Count was coming. I am sorry to say that in his dis- 

 appointment the latter allowed himself to make some very 

 unsportsmanlike, unfounded and untrue accusations. 



I also met Captain Percival (Rifle Brigade) here. 

 He took over charge of the western district. It is 

 astonishing how very like his map and mine are, con- 

 sidering that both were the outcome of prismatic 

 compass sketches. With Percival was my able lieu- 

 tenant Wahbi Ef¥., who when on leave had been 

 specially promoted sagh. As he and I had agreed 

 before he went away, he brought a great lot of fruit 



