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to Khartoum ? I shall look forward with much pleasure to 
meeting you somewhere in those parts, and I think I might 
manage to help you in your ivory transactions when we meet. 
“ Very sincerely yours, * 
“ (Signed) SAMUEL W. BAKEE.” 
This was followed by several others, dated at Cairo, expressive 
of a wish to meet and travel with me. From on hoard his boat at 
Boulak on April 14th, 1861, he reports his departure from Cairo 
as follows : 
“NILE BOAT, BOULAK, 
Ajjril IWi, 1861. 
“ Deae Petheeick, 
“I sail to-day, and five minutes ago your note of 
March 24th was delivered to me. I need not say how glad I 
shall be to see you. 
“ All my guns, &c.. &c., are arrived, with 100 lb. of gunpowder ; 
but I expect 150 lb. more of the latter from England. Should 
this be in Alexandria before you leave for the Upper Country, 
will you be kind enough to bring it up with you, or to leave 
instructions, if it be not then arrived, that it be forwarded to 
you at Khartoum ? 
“ Upon opening a case of nautical instruments, I was terribly 
disappointed in not finding the expected chronometer. I hope 
you will make arrangements to secure a right good one somehow 
or other, and bring up the Grreenwich mean time with you. Mr. 
Thurban can, I think, assist you in this. Do not forget to get 
a note of the rate of the chronometer and to use the instrument 
like a young baby, otherwise we shall be bothered for longitude. 
I think rockets and blue lights would be most useful. If you 
are not supplied with these, the Peninsular and Oriental Com- 
pany can supply them from their stores at Suez. 
