DUFILE ASSAULTED. 



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letters, as also a few presents for the Arabs. Everything now 

 depends on Kabrega proving compliant. But if all means fail, 

 and he too refuses his assistance, it will still be possible to send 

 150 men through Mruli to Uganda, though force may have to 

 be used. Kamisoa, Bionga's son, has sent men to me, but 

 they maintain that it is impossible for them to send letters 

 direct to Uganda. Perhaps here too gentle pressure will be 

 efficacious. I have sent the men back with a great show of 

 anger and without presents, and they promised to do their 

 utmost. 



So much for the state of things up to the present time. I 

 have long kept up hope, but it now seems quite certain that 

 we must expect absolutely nothing from the north. Therefore 

 we shall try the south. Till now I have succeeded in keeping 

 my handful of men together. Who can guess what the future 

 will bring ? 



December 3, 1885. 



The steamer, which arrived to-day, brings the news that 

 Lado is not yet relieved. Rejaf has been attacked by a large 

 number of Bari and Dinka, but they have been repulsed with 

 a loss of about 500 killed and a large number of wounded. 

 In a later assault, also, the Negroes lost a good many men. 

 Bejaf is well fortified and provisioned, but all these fights avail 

 nothing. I have therefore sent reinforcements once more, and 

 repeated my orders for the people to retire. I have no news 

 of any kind from Kabrega. 



Januarg 2, 18S6. 



To begin with, I wish you a happy New Year. Will it 

 bring us luck also ? Let me give a r4sumd of the events of 

 the last month, if I may call them such. On December 10 

 news reached me that Dr. Junker had arrived in Fagango with 

 the porters I sent from here, and early on the I ith I steamed 

 up-stream in the Khedive to fetch him. In the evening we 

 were together in Wadelai. Two days later, the other steamer 

 brought news from Dufile that the troops in Rejaf had been 

 successful in their operations against the Bari, and had taken 

 a number of cattle. The reinforcements sent from here had 



