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every description. Accompanying him was the vakeel of the Dutch 
ladies. 
The Kathleen proceeded a short distance to a pool diverging 
from the narrow channel, where it was deemed best she should 
remain for a time. 
Fraught with danger is this pool : enormous crocodiles frequent 
it. Last year, the brother of our reis was seized by one whilst 
bathing, and destroyed, A few weeks ago, whilst crossing a 
shallow, a negro, driving some cows and a calf, the latter was 
carried off; and the following morning, the negro, having oecasion 
to revisit the spot, this time with a brother, when, to his horror, 
the youth was seized, and, despite the efforts of the former, and 
the effect of several javelins that were hurled at him, the crocodile 
retained his hold, and drawing the lad into deep water, no more 
was seen of him. 
The following morning the Baron von Heuglin (a personal friend 
of PethericlFs) paid us an early visit. Von Heuglin and Dr. 
Steudner, both gentlemen well known to the scientific world, had 
requested permission to accompany the expedition of the ladies. 
They, on March 23rd, left the mishra, acting as pioneers in search 
of suitable encamping ground, where the ladies might remain during 
the rainy season. 
On April 2nd they crossed the Biver Djour, and the same even- 
ing reached a village named Wan, where Dr. Steudner sickened, 
and where, on the 10th, he died, attended assiduously by his friend 
V on Heuglin. With reference to the locality, my husband remarks : 
The aspect and conditions of the Bahar il Gazal, to what I repre- 
sented it in my work, ^ Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa,'’ 
when I navigated it from the years 1853 to 1858, were so surprising, 
that had I not beheld the change myself, no description could have 
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