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report of the details he has given us, relative to the events that 
have taken place at Khartoum during your absence. 
“ 1st. During the return to Khartoum of your servants, who 
were upon the White Kiver (in June, 1864) the boat that con- 
veyed them stopped at different military posts established on the 
White Kiver for the purpose of preventing the slave trade, and 
supported by the Egyptian Grovernment ; the boat was minutely 
inspected, and the servants were questioned several times, and 
at length, finding nothing illegal, the officers commanding these 
different posts gave the boatmen a passport, by which means 
they were enabled to reach Khartoum. 
“ 2nd. The same servant states that on arriving at Khartoum, 
the local Grovernor demanded from your servants -the immediate 
payment of the personal tax or duty called ‘ Werko.' This pay- 
ment having been made, the Grovernor- Greneral ordered that this 
said servant, as well as your special agent Abdel Kahman, should 
be thrown into prison and separated one from another. 
“ After five days’ detention, this hunter was examined by 
Moosa Pasha, who asked him if he had not taken any slaves, 
and if you had not expressly ordered him to carry on the trade. 
The hunter replied that he had never seen slaves either bought 
or sold, and that, on the contrary, you had always energetically 
forbidden him to carry on this dreadful trade. 
“ This reply made the Grovernor- Greneral order five hundred 
blows of the ‘ courbatch ’ — (a whip of hippopotamus-hide) — to 
be given to the servant ; and we have ourselves learned that the 
above-mentioned hunter or servant still bears upon his head, 
back, and shoulders, the marks, more or less deep and still un- 
healed, of the blows of the ‘ courbatcli7 After this, the same 
Governor- Greneral ordered baked bricks to be placed on the in- 
side of his elbow-joints, the bricks being retained in that position 
by lashing the wrist to the arm below the shoulder, and he then 
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