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proceedings in the interior. At the moment of the departure of 
Amahile and Hhurshid_, it was discovered that both of those boats, 
anchored at some distance from us, one of which belonged to 
Amahile and the other to Hhurshid, were full of slaves. In con- 
sequence of this discovery, and the stringent instructions I had 
received from the Foreign Office with respect to the slave trade, I 
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considered ft my duty to order Amahile^s arrest on his arrival at 
Khartoum, and furtherance to H.M. Consul-General in Egypt on 
the charge of slave traffic. 
Notwithstanding it appeared clear to me from the statements of 
Amahile, that Speke could by no possibility reach Gondokoro by 
Faloro and the Eastern Nile-bank, I was most anxious to effect a 
meeting with Abd il Majid, as I wished to learn from him the 
results of his investigations directed from our station. It appeared 
to me now beyond a doubt, that Speke, not having been heard of 
as far as about 3° north of the Equator on the eastern side of the 
Nile, would inevitably have stuck to his original plan agreed upon 
between him and me before our parting at Jordans,^^ that he would 
traverse the country on the western shores of his lake, and continue 
his journey on the west side of the Nile to Gondokoro. My search 
for him, therefore, by Abd il Majid, appeared to me more forcibly 
than ever to have been directed in the right direction. As a further 
proof I may here perhaps cite, in corroboration of this arrangement, 
that Speke evidently intended I should traverse the western side of 
the Nile, his statement at Faloro to Kidgwiga the guide, furnished 
him by Kamrasi (see his work, Journal of the Discovery of the 
Source of the Nile,^^ page 585) . He states : I would send another 
white man to him (Kamrasi), not by the way I had come through 
Kidi, but by the left bank of the Nile.^^ 
I was not long in suspense, for on May 16th — that is, four days 
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