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accompanied by a few others I brought from Khartoum. Pray 
give my kindest regards to Mrs. Petherick ; although I have 
never had the pleasure of making her acquaintance personally, 
I have been full of anxiety on her account. I cannot tell you 
our disappointment upon arrival at Gondokoro at hearing that 
you were still astray. 
“S. W. BAKEE.” 
Our march after this was of short duration^ and we rested for 
the night on the slope of a hill near Manio. The chiefs called 
Bubauglae^ came to thank us for restoring to their parents the 
children stolen from his district. Bubauglae^s head-dress was 
becoming. A wreath of cock^s feathers, mingled with those of a 
red bird, encircled his head; his necklace was of finely-twisted 
iron; and on his arms he wore brightly polished bands made of 
the sanie metal. His origin was Barri — this language he spoke. 
At the foot of the hill where we encamped was the dried-up 
channel of a water- course, and scattered around a few villages 
were visible. 
February \^th . — After another night intensely cold to 'us, we 
were off at 6.15. A grassy plain was first traversed, and then a 
perceptible decline in the line of our route brought us to lower 
ground, where the plains had been devest ated by fire. A march 
of an hour and a quarter brought us to the river Queeny, which 
was crossed. The bed, now nearly dry, was ‘of considerable breadth. 
It is said to flow into Ayi, in the Neangara territory, at a point 
farther north than that crossed by us. Halted for breakfast and 
to replenish the water-skins. On again starting, traversed a dense 
forest, and at its confines rested half an hour; we then emerged 
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