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III. 



AMADI FALLS, AND A PART OF THE GARRISON HEROICALLY CUT THEIR 

 WAY THROUGH THE ENEMY — THE DANAGLA APPEAR IN THE NEIGH- 

 BOURHOOD OF LAD6, AND THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF KHARTUM 

 ARRIVES — CONCENTRATION OF THE TROOPS ON THE UPPER PART 

 OF THE NILE — SOJOURN IN MUGGI AND DUFILE — ALLIANCE WITH 

 KABR^GA ANNOUNCED — REJAF AND LADO" ASSAULTED BY BARI AND 

 THEIR CONFEDERATES — DR. JUNKER'S DEPARTURE — POST FROM ZAN- 

 ZIBAR — FIRST NEWS RECEIVED OF EGYPT AND EUROPE AFTER THREE 

 YEARS — DIFFICULTIES CONNECTED WITH THE RETREAT TO THE SOUTH 

 — UGANDA BEATEN BY UNY6RO — CASATl's DEPARTURE — DISCIPLINE 

 BECOMES RELAXED — GLOOMY PROSPECTS. 



Wadelai, December 1, 1S85. 



I informed you in my last letter of January 25 that Dr. 

 Junker, finding that the situation was becoming more and more 

 dangerous, was preparing to go to the south, with the intention 

 of taking np his abode with Anf Ina for the present, and trying 

 to put himself into communication with the missionaries in 

 Uganda. He left, after Captain Oasati had returned to Lado 

 from Makraka, on January 23. On the 30th, the barges which 

 had been sent to Bor returned without having effected any- 

 thing, for the officers there had refused to give up Bor, because 

 they had too many people belonging to them to march by land, 

 and the barges at their disposal were too small and too few. 

 They now asked for a reinforcement of three hundred men 

 and large quantities of ammunition, neither of which I was 

 able to give them. The vakil of the mudirie was satisfied 

 with this answer, and brought me an inventory, from which it 

 appeared that each officer had thirty to forty persons in his 

 household. Bor must therefore be given up for lost. Mean- 

 while I sent a fresh supply of corn and some messengers with 

 another order for the garrison to come here — with what result 

 you will hear presently. 



Being anxious at the absence of news from Amadi, I sent 

 an official there to bring me a true report of the state of 

 affairs. Before his arrival, or rather because they heard he 

 was coming, the officers resolved on a sortie, which was so 



