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upon as a favoured man he was elected president, we 
could not say, but the latter is not unlikely ; for the 
natives of Africa have a respect for men with spotted 
skins. The Turks generally applied to us for medical 
advice. One day a tooth had to be drawn ; a rag 
was tied round each half of a pair of scissors, and I 
had to make these answer all the purpose of a forceps. 
Again, a disease which very much resembles diph- 
theria, and which was said to be fatal unless cut, was 
treated in an odd way. The patient had a white 
abscess in the throat, and it required to be cut. They 
had no instrument for the purpose, and we had only 
a penknife, and there was further the difficulty of 
reaching the seat of the disease. The natives, how- 
ever, are ingenious ; they pulled out the tongue so far 
that a hair noose could be put round the abscess, and 
it was then cut, much to the poor man's relief, who 
speedily recovered. 
It has been mentioned that the people of Madi 
wear the teeth of crocodiles as neck ornaments. The 
natives of Bari do the same, and the pearly white 
colour of the teeth is most becoming to their deep 
bronze complexions. Another ornament seen here 
was new to us : the thigh-bones of sheep and rats 
were pierced at one end, and slung from the neck. 
I had seen nothing like this since leaving Delagoa 
Bay, where the Zulu Kaffirs, called in Central Africa 
"Watuta," wear bones, bird's -feet, &c, as charms 
round the neck. 
On the 1st of February 1863, we marched in a 
caravan or troop of no less than three hundred souls 
from our camp at Apuddo to some villages fifteen 
miles distant on the route to Gondokoro. Having to 
