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rAllemagne^ jamais un Allemand ne se rend vers le Nil Blanc; ils 
sent tons etablis ici ; de toute le colonie de Khartoum il n^y a que 
les Bran 9 ais, et de plus un Anglais_, et un Maltais_, qui trafiquent 
d^esclaves_, et se rendent coupables des actions bonteuses dont je 
viens de parler/^ 
Now_, as I was the only Englishman that traded on the White 
Nile^ there could be no doubt that the slave accusation partially 
referred to myself. Therefore^ upon my first meeting with Dr. 
Natterer at Khartoum^ on my return in 1861_, I sought an expla- 
nation of the offensive paragraph in question_, with this result : 
“ KHAKTOUM, 
“ March lith, 1862. 
“With respect to my report of the 5th April, 1860, No. 76, 
to the I.K. Austrian Consulate-General, I beg to inform you that 
in the translation of that report into Erench an unpleasant error 
has crept in. After I had described the bartering trade with the 
negro populations as having suffered in consequence of the slave 
trade, I said that the Germans were settled here in Khartoum^ 
and that Erenchmen, Italians, one Englishman, and one Maltese 
carried on trade upon the White Eiver. The translator has 
erroneously taken this to mean slave trade. At that time I did 
not at all know who was carrying on the slave trade on the White 
Kiver, and therefore not the slightest imputation was intended to 
be cast upon you, which fact I hereby acknowledge. 
“ (Signed) Dr. JOSEPH NATTEEEE, 
^^Administrator of the Imperial Royal 
Austrian Consulate. 
“ John Petueeick, Esq.” 
