CHAPTER XIV. 
FROM DECEMBER 3, 1862, TO JANUARY 11, 1863 — FALORO, LATI- 
TUDE 3° 15' N. — THE TOORKEES OR TURKS — REGIMENTAL 
PARADE — MOONLIGHT DANCE— PRODUCTS OF FALORO — WILD 
ANIMALS — MIANl'S TREE AT APUDDO — AUTHOR HEARS OF 
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN SPEKE — PREPARATIONS FOR ENTER- 
ING THE BARI COUNTRY. 
At Faloro we found upwards of a hundred men of 
every Egyptian caste, colour, and costume. They were 
called by the natives of the country "Toorkee," or 
Turks ; but there was not a true Turk amongst them, 
and only one or two European countenances. Curly 
locks were exceptional, and wool predominated. They 
were adventurers without homes, born in the most 
northern Egyptian dominions from negro stock. We 
afterwards ascertained that the bazaar at Khartoum 
was full of such idlers ready for any employ. The 
merchants there engage them to go into the interior 
for the purpose of collecting ivory ; guns are put into 
their hands, an intelligent native is placed over them, 
and they are sent up the Bahr Abiad (White Nile) as 
ivory-hunters, not to return perhaps for several years. 
These were the men we were so glad to meet, but from 
