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I shall hope to get into communication with you, as I shall send 
a man there with a letter in about five weeks’ time, on the chauce 
of your arrival. 
“ I sent a soldier to Berber with a couple of boppopotami- 
skins and skulls to be added to my baggage, left in charge of 
Suliman Effendi. Will you kindly let them go on to Khartoum ? 
The teeth I took from the skulls. I have had no sport but 
antelopes, and the said hippo’s, up to this spot ; but from all 
accounts I have now reached a good country. I arrived here on 
the 8th instant. Pray give my remembrances to ITalleem Effendi 
and Suliman Effendi at Berber, as I received much attention from 
them.’ 
“ Yery sincerely yours, 
“(Signed) SAiSlTJEL W. BAKER.” 
We arrived at Khartoum on the 15th October, prior to the ter- 
mination of an unusually long rainy season. The south wind was 
still the prevailing one, and the Nile had never been remembered 
to have risen so high. Notwithstanding a severe rheumatic attack, 
I was not long in finding out, and reporting to the proper quarter, 
the enormous proportions the slave trade on the White Nile had 
assumed since my departure from the Soudan in the spring of 1859. 
Although, whilst in England, I had been informed, through Her 
Alajesty^s Government, of such a change in connection with the 
White Nile traffic, I, at the Time, believed the statements exag- 
gerated; but now there was no doubt upon the subject. Report 
stated every ivory trader to be in some way or other connected with 
this abominable traffic ; and, notwithstanding the local government 
had issued a formal notice prohibiting it, a larger number of men 
and boats were then employed in the vigorous prosecution of the 
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