APPENDIX A. 
137 
Baker^ anxious to do something, had been incited by Speke to 
explore the Little Luta Nzigi ; and from the fact of my having 
reported a nameless sheet of water, described as a ^‘^deep and 
wide river,^^ west of the locality, flowing west, during my travels 
from the Bahar il Gazal in 1858 (see Proceedings of the Royal 
Geographical Society,^^ Vol. V., No. 1, page 39), and Mussaad, in 
his search for Speke from my station at Wayo, having also heard 
of the Luta Nzigi, I was naturally anxious to see and explore 
the waters myself. But for the mutiny of my men, it would have 
been an easy task to accomplish. Now, however, reduced to equal 
forces, and to make the best of them, my proposal to Baker to 
combine and push for the latter was no sooner made than accepted. 
He, however, literally calculated without his hosts; for no sooner 
were his men informed of the project than the rascals protested 
that they would not move an inch in my company, and in the 
hour of its birth the infant project expired. 
My last hope for further exploration had received its death-blow ; 
and Baker, who had been previously sorely disappointed by De Bono^s 
agent disgracefully leaving him in the lurch after having promised 
him safe convoy with his powerful band to Faloro, was at his wits’ 
end. There remained no choice but to attach himself to a large 
body of Hhurshld’s men, about to proceed to their station, some five 
days’ journey to the eastward of Gondokoro. His ambition pointed 
south ; but, like myself from Aboo Kuka to Gondokoro, he could 
do nothing but submit to the inconvenience of an immense detour , 
with the hope of eventually alluring the traders to extend their 
operations towards the field of his ultimate hard-earned and well- 
merited success. 
In order to insure his expeditious return to Khartoum, on the 
13th of March, 1863, for the consideration of 6,240 Egyptian 
