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three brave Sudanese soldiers had fled to that place, and had 

 even brought their rifles with them, one of them being Vonni, 

 Lupton's late orderly, a trustworthy man, who properly belongs 

 to this province, but had followed Lupton to the Bahr-el-Ghazal. 

 Well, these soldiers related at an official audience, that Lupton 

 had been betrayed by his own men, who had been in league with 

 the rebels for a long time ; that the Danagla, directly after they 

 had occupied the mudirie, had burnt all the books and Govern- 

 ment documents, had opened and plundered the magazine, had 

 seized all the arms and ammunition which they found in store or 

 in the hands of the soldiers, and sold them to the highest bidder 

 for money or slaves, and finally had put the soldiers in slave- 

 chains. The latter had their scanty food thrown down before 

 them into a trough scraped out in the ground, and within the 

 next few days were either reclaimed by some of the Danagla 

 as their former slaves or were publicly sold. You may imagine 

 how I congratulated myself on my decision not to go to the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal. 



Immediately after the departure of the above-mentioned 

 mission, Dr. Junker went towards the south, but remained in 

 Dufile, to await for a time the course of events. He was 

 kind enough to take all my correspondence, intending to carry 

 it with him, if necessary, by way of Zanzibar. I hope it may 

 not come to that, but that he may yet take the route to the 

 north. As I was making arrangements to send all the people, 

 who are not wanted here, the so-called divan and its clerks, 

 to Makraka, where, at any rate, there is abundance of corn, 

 another event suddenly took place there which filled me not 

 only with surprise but grief. 



The head of the administration there, a certain Ibrahim 

 Aga, of Khartum, who had hitherto always proved trustworthy, 

 and therefore had been promoted by me step by step, though 

 he was a Dongolaui, had, it appears, been engaged for some 

 time in collecting the Danagla together from all the outlying 

 points, while at the very time he was writing letters to me full 

 of expressions of devotion and assurances of his undeviating 

 faithfulness to the Government. He had pillaged the maga- 

 zine in Wandi, and, through the agency of an Egyptian officer 

 who was devoted to him, he invited the few Sudanese soldiers 



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