CHAPTER IX 



MY JOURNEY FROM LOKO TO DORRORO 



Of course it was a sad day for me when I saw the last of my 

 companions, and realised that I was obliged to spend some 

 weeks of comparative idleness before I would be able to 

 rejoin them and do my share of the work in our forward 

 movement. Still, it was a satisfaction to feel that with 

 such able fellow workers, in spite of the severe checks caused 

 by illness — for I was not the only one to be attacked by 

 the hidden foe — the expedition would now go forward 

 again as if nothing had happened. 



My brother, not then fully recovered from his severe 

 attack of fever, had come down to me at Ibi on the news that 

 I was dangerously ill, and there he stayed with me till he 

 received word from Talbot, who had been prostrated at Wase 

 with dysentery, that he was well again and able to continue 

 the survey in the Murchison range. This welcome news 

 was the signal for my brother to join Talbot, and I saw him 

 of! two days before the boats left. He took with him an 

 escort of fifteen soldiers and seventy carriers, who were 

 laden with grain, which he had been busy collecting to carry 

 them through the work in the Wase district, at this time 

 stricken with the direst famine, the result of the failure of 

 the harvest. The famine was rendered more acute by the 

 hostility of the pagan tribes of the neighbouring hills, whose 



