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to move. Besides, it is quite impossible to make a Sudanese 

 understand why the Government has given up the Sudan, and 

 he refuses in so many words to believe that a horde of Danagla 

 is able to crush a well-trained army. Even now it is believed 

 here that the news of General Hicks's defeat in Kordofan is a 

 fiction. All my efforts during the last twelve months to con- 

 centrate the men in the south, have had no other result hitherto 

 than to draw from the first battalion, stationed in Lado and 

 the neighbourhood, or at any rate from the officers, a cate- 

 gorical declaration that they would not give up Lado, &c. 

 Now, if I send copies of the letter from Egypt, written in 

 French too (an error much to be regretted — it should have 

 been written in Arabic), it will at least be considered a fabri- 

 cation, that is, a device of my own, and will not be obeyed. 

 But something worse may happen, for when the people are 

 once convinced of the impotence of the Government, universal 

 anarchy may ensue, and the destruction of all the white men 

 may be the first result. I do not yet see how I am to get out 

 of this dilemma. God help me ! Of course I wrote at once 

 to Nubar Pasha, promising to do my utmost, but could not 

 give the foregoing details, as the letter might be opened in 

 Uganda or elsewhere. The reason which induces me to com- 

 municate them to you is that, should we come to grief, you 

 at any rate will know the state of affairs, and will be able to 

 explain it to the authorities. 



By a most unfortunate coincidence, war has just at this 

 moment broken out between Uganda and Unyoro ; as far as I 

 can make out, it is the consequence of endless misunderstand- 

 ings. The English missionaries in Uganda seem also to have 

 lost credit to some extent. I have written to the king, and to 

 my old friends, the Katihiro and the Arab, Hamis-bin-Holfan, 

 begging them to send me some men from there. I hope for 

 good results. I lay great weight on the fact that in all my 

 dealings with Kabrega I have found him trustworthy and 

 obliging. 



Dr. Junker writes to me that ho forwarded his letters from 

 Kabrega to Uganda on February 12, and that he has also 

 written to you. I gave him a small packet of letters for the 

 English Consul- General at Zanzibar, in which a couple of lines 



