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CONTENTS. 
Vage 
Captain Speke writes me from Khartoum — A report of our death . . .133 
Animosity of the Arab traders — Great commotion — The breaking open of my 
stores — The rioters joined by my own men . . . . . .134: 
Good feeling of some of my men — The men of Mr. Baker’s escort mutiny — 
He applies to me as Consul for assistance . . 135 
Mr. Baker’s claim upon the Egyptian authorities for the mutiny of his escort. 136 
My proposal to Baker — My last hope for further explorations receives its 
death-blow 137 
Speke and Grant’s departure for Khartoum — A collection of plants for Kew 
Gardens 138 
The desert Flora of Aboo Hamed — A succession of fevers and illnesses — My 
experience of Speke at Gondokoro 139 
Slander and calumny — •! decide upon entering proceedings against Capt. Speke 110 
The Austrian Consular Agent, Dr. Natterer’s, report upon the horrors of the 
slave trade on the White Nile — The report partially refers to myself — I 
demand an explanation from Dr. Natterer — His reply . . . .Ill 
Letter from Theodore Von Heuglin exonerating me from all participation in 
slave trading 112 
I receive letters in vindication of my character from G. Thibaut, Administrator 
of the Imperial Vice-Consulate of France, and M. L. Hansal, Austrian 
Consul 113 
The “hue and cry” vanishes on my return to Khartoum — The Werlio . . Ill 
My trade summarily stopped— Moosa Pasha’s unmitigated rage for my ruin . 115 
My opposition to the Werlw — Translation of a French document, showing how 
Moosa Pasha set about accomplishing my ruin 116 — 118. 
Old Cairo — I report myself to Mr. Eeade, our acting Consul-General — I learn 
that His Highness the Viceroy verbally accused me of slave trading . 119 
I request that Her Majesty’s Government grant me the closest investigation 
into these charges — Keply from the Foreign Office 150 
I receive the first intelligence of Consul Cameron’s imprisonment — Offer my 
services to the British Government to execute any mission to the Court of 
Abyssinia 151 
Treacherous behaviour of a friend — My offer rejected— Abolition of the Con- 
sulate — Earl Russell’s letter 152 
My suggestions to Lord Stanley respecting the relief of the captives in Abys- 
sinia 153 
Lord Stanley’s reply 151 
My treatment by Egyptian officers — An extract from the “ Athenaeum 
“ Official England on the White Nile ” 155 
The protection of a Consul especially indispensable at Khartoum . . . 156 
The Khartoumers’ support of slave traffic 157 
Disclosures by Consul Eeade of Cairo — The hotbed of Egyptian slave trade . 158 
