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in expeditions after corn, tending the sick — the wounded 

 from Amadi — and administrative business. Captain Casati, 

 who had left Lado later than I did, overtook me in Lahore. 

 Letters reached me there from Dr. Junker, telling me that he 

 had not been successful in establishing the communication he 

 desired or in forwarding letters, though he went in person 

 to Kamisoa, Eionga's son, and met some of Kabrega's men 

 there. A post came also from Lado with the announcement 

 that a Bari dragoman, whom the Danagla had carried off 

 from Makraka, had arrived there. He had gone with them on 

 their retreat to the Bahr-el-Ghazal as far as Gosa, and had 

 then escaped. At the same time, all kinds of reports spread 

 through the province that the Danagla on the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 were at war with foreigners and Negroes ; even the names of 

 the commanders were given. 



After sending off about four hundred ardebs of corn to Lado, 

 I went at length to Dufile, in consequence of representations 

 made to me officially by the Major in command of the second 

 battalion there, that he found it very difficult to send corn to 

 Lado, and could not also supply us at Khor Ayu. After I 

 arrived, the transport from Dufile continued. Captain Casati 

 went on to Wadelai, and I thought of following him, partly 

 to see if I could not restore my former relations with Kabrega, 

 and send letters to Uganda, Zanzibar, and Egypt, and partly 

 to relieve Dufile a little, for it was overcrowded. I left on 

 July 9, and arrived at Wadelai on the 10th; this is to be our 

 headquarters until better times come. 



As we are cut off from all communication even with Makraka, 

 our only sources of information are, of course, rumours. To 

 show what they are like, I give you a translation of a letter 

 sent to me from Lado on August 10, 1885: — "We have 

 questioned Chief Kenyi about the rebels, and he tells us that 

 they went to Wau, and have been driven off from there ; he 

 has heard that Bakhit Bey and Nur Bey are there, and an 

 Englishman of high rank with them. The inhabitants of 

 Fashoda are said to have risen, but also large numbers of 

 soldiers to have arrived there. After the festival the soldiers 

 will go to Bor, as you ordered. We hear from the people 

 that the Danagla have thrown the cannon they captured at 



