A FALSE ALARM 



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men and goods at Little Nyemps, and it therefore seemed best 

 to our leader to go back ; and tlie absence of natives when we 

 broke up our camp, with the occasional cries of ' Ui-ui,' which 

 we had heard from the distance as we were leaving, were alike 

 explained. The Count quickly chose out a hundred men and 

 hastened to the assistance of the natives at Greater Nyemps, 

 only to return in about half an hour, he having met some 

 moran from Little Nyemps, who told him that it had all been 

 a false alarm, arisino- from the fact that there had been a fioht 

 between the Wakamasia and the Suk, in which the latter had 

 been driven back. 



It was too late to start again that day, so our tents were 

 pitched once more, whilst the men took possession again of 

 their but recently deserted huts, and as we went to bed the 

 Count and I both wondered whether this unexpected interrup- 

 tion of our start was a bad omen for our success. 



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