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CONTENTS. 
FEOM PETHEEICK’S NOTE-BOOK. 
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My wife attacked by typhus fever — She is delirious — Once more on the Nile . 1 
The men’s careful tendance of Sitta 3Iadame — We enter the Sobat — Depth 
and width of river, and rate of current ....... 2 
The Shillooks of the White Nile^ — Their habits and customs .... 3 
The Sultan and his Council — A singular custom 4 
The Djibba, their weapons and ornaments ........ 5 
A warlike negro race 6 
The Nuba-race^ comprising the Bonjack and Shillook — “ Civilizing effects of 
Egyptian sway ” — The policy of “ amity and commerce ” . . . .7 
Moosa Pasha enforces the payment of an impost from Melik, Nassur of Tekkela " 
— A refusal, and desperate encounter 8 
Moosa Pasha’s inhuman treatment of prisoners — Negro adoption of Mahom- 
medanism 9 
The Nuba population — Ignorance and superstition — Description of an idol . 10 
The Dinka, their habits and customs 11 
MES. PETHEEICK EESUMES HEE JOUENAL. 
The comfort of returning health — Euins of the village of Mahommed Cheir — 
Defeat of the oppressor . . . 12 
Birket il Djebelein mountains — We meet boat-loads of slaves — A piteous sight 
— Arrive at Donagla — Meet Monsieur de Pryssenaere . . . .13 
A present of birds 14 
EXTEACTS FEOM LETTEES. 
(From June, 1863, to April, 1865.J 
Eeturn to Khartoum . . . . . . . . . . . .15 
Wearying for news from home — Intelligence of the death of Dean Littler . 16 
Petherick is troubled — The guinea- worm . .17 
