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In proceeding to Gondokoro^ where Speke^ had he arrived^ would 
have found every requisite in my boat sent on from Ahoo Kuka in 
July lastj my object was in any case to replenish myself with stores 
and provisions^ of which I was now destitute, and in the event of 
his non- arrival to proceed thence southwards in search of him. So 
far from having abandoned the interests of the Speke Expedition, 
I now — as previously, when I withdrew a portion of my men from 
my trading station, the Bahar il Gazal, for the support of Abd il 
Majid — again prejudiced my commercial interests by ordering the 
whole of the disposable men, short of an entire abandonment of the 
station, to accompany me in my search for Speke. The necessity 
for thus collecting so strong a force was necessitated by the more 
than usually turbulent state of the tribes, consequent on the raids 
made on them for cattle and slaves by the traders that infested the 
locality to be traversed. 
In the territory of the Neambara, when about half-way on 
our journey, we rejoiced in meeting about sixty of our men. 
The men in question, in conformity with my orders from Aboo 
Kuka, were reinforcements from Khartoum, and, with three boats 
for the Speke Expedition, and one for the requirements of my 
trading station, had arrived at Gondokoro on January 20th. In 
reporting the arrival at that place of Mr. (now Sir Samuel) Baker, 
on the 2nd of the following month, they handed me a letter from 
him dated February 9th, in which, after thanking me for the hospi- 
tality of my roof during six months^ stay at Khartoum, and revert- 
ing to the irritation caused at the place by my arrest of Amabile 
Moussa, the Maltese, and of my own man Abd il Majid, on a charge 
of slave trading, he says, an accusation was sent to the Consul- 
General against you, signed by nearly all the Europeans at Khar- 
toum, including the official declarations of the two Consulates, 
