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Rahan, interpreter, ^ _ . J M n 
■c .. 7 -, I Private servants and 
Fni, do., > ._ 
Uledi,yalet, j "fle-camers. 
Mabrook, valet, donkey-man. 
Three or four women. 
Sixty-four Seedee boys, ) Carrying our kit and 
115 porters of the interior, J barter. 
Eleven mules carrying ammunition. 
Five donkeys to carry the sick. 
Twenty -five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the 
first thirteen stages, and we had the under-mentioned 
casualties during the journey : — 
Private Peters dead ; 
Five other privates sent back sick ; 
About thirty Seedees deserted ; 
One discharged ; 
113 porters deserted ; 
Eleven mules and two donkeys dead ; 
Fifteen out of twenty goats stolen ; and 
Our native commandant, the Sheikh, hors de combat. 
The daily stages have been so well and so fully 
described by Captain Speke that I shall not dwell 
upon them, but merely mention a few incidents de- 
scriptive of our life in the interior, and the fauna we 
observed. To accomplish this distance of 500 miles 
in 71 travelling days, of from 1 to 25 miles per day 
on foot, took us all the months of October, November, 
December, and twenty-five days of January, struggling 
against the caprices of our followers, the difficulties of 
the countries passed through, and the final desertion 
of our porters. 
There being no roads, merely a rough track, no 
beasts of burden nor conveyances of any kind in the 
country, our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 
60 lb. each, without lock or key, and the porters 
paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 
