462 LETTERS TO DR. SCHWEINFURTH. 



to enable him to travel home ! What a long talk we shall 

 have now ! 



May 27, 1884. 



The Bahr-el-Ghazal mudirie has surrendered to the army of 

 the Mahdi, after Lupton had been deserted by all his men. 

 Sheik Keremallah, commander-in-chief of the army of occupa- 

 tion, writes to me that the whole Sudan is lost, Khartum 

 besieged, and that Hicks and Alaeddin have fallen, with 

 36,000 men, and he invites me to come to him at once and 

 surrender. It would be folly to fight without rifles, without 

 ammunition, without men that I can depend on, with Danagla 

 before and behind me. I shall therefore go to the Bahr-el- 

 Ghazal on Monday. 



Junker has decided to try the route to Zanzibar through 

 Mtesa's residence. God guide him ! 



I am sending this letter by him. Kindly keep a place for 

 me in your thoughts. — Yours very sincerely, 



Dr. EMIN-BEY. 



II. 



LUPTON'S LAST LETTERS — EMBASSY TO KEREMALLAH— WILD REPORTS — ACTS 

 OF TREACHERY — EVACUATION OF THE OUTPOSTS BEGINS — NO ESCAPE ! 

 — THE EXPOSED STATIONS BOR AND RUMBEK DESERTED — RETREAT 

 TO AMADI — KEREMALLAH'S INCENDIARY LETTERS — BATTLES ROUND 

 AMADI — EARTHQUAKES— LOSS AT BOR. 



Lado, August 14, 1884. 



I finished my letter to you very hastily under the influence 

 of the sad impression which the surrender of Lupton Bey 

 and his mudirie to the Mahdi's men made upon us all. We 

 were hourly expecting our turn to come next, and to see the 

 Kordofan hordes encamped before our gates. It is but right 

 that I should now inform you of what has occurred since, though 

 I do not know how my letter is to reach you, if it does at all, 

 for we seem deserted and forgotten by all the world. I must, 



