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TEAVELS m CENTEAL AFEICA. 
Their greatest enemies are the adjoining Dinka tribes of various 
denominations^ whose aim is to carry off both sexes into slavery ; 
they also have frequent quarrels and fights with different commu- 
nities of the tribe to which they appertain^ and slavery is also 
practised^ but with this modification — that the victims are often 
ransomed, for lances^ arrows^ or a few goats. If these means fail^ 
one or more head of cattle^ according to the number of the cap- 
tiveSj is certain to have effect ; and, to procure them, pillage is ne- 
cessarily resorted to on the herds of some pastoral tribe. Thus 
with some one or other of their neighbours they are constantly in 
hot water. 
November l^th . — A part of the men preceded us with the cattle at 
seven a.m., and we followed an hour afterwards. My wife’s horse 
Luxor” having fallen ill, causing us some anxiety, she rode my 
grey, ^^Arab;” and, shouldering my fowling-piece, I, on foot, led 
our party. We had no sooner started than the boy Foxcroft was 
again in trouble : his pouch and shot-belt had been abstracted from 
his hut during a temporary absence. The articles not having been 
discovered, the negroes, who rushed in a body into the enclosure as 
soon as the former had vacated it, were naturally suspected. Their 
chief’s representations failing to induce them to return the articles, 
I returned myself, and telling Magwai not to be uneasy, I made 
