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And when in the after days and rougher times of the Expedi- 

 tion, all his possessions had fallen away from him, and he 

 marched into Khartoum in nothing more than a ragged 

 shirt, his medal still shone bright upon his breast. In the 



THE RIVER NEAR YO 



evening we gave the Kachella a pyrotechnic display, consisting 

 of half a dozen rockets, some of the very few that were saved 

 from the sinking of the canoe on the Gongola. They were of 

 enormous power and splendid beauty, each coloured ball 

 long after the great fountain burst breaking again with loud 

 reports in vari-coloured jets of their own. They did not 

 fail in their purpose of creating a sensation and were great 

 feathers in our caps. They were even startling in their effect, 

 for all the horses in Yo stampeded and the people of Bulturi, 

 thirty miles away, made preparation for fhght across the 

 river. How we wished for a few more of them later on in 

 the Expedition, when we were among peoples that were 

 still more impressionable ! 



