chap, i.] SALE OF THE MISSION-HOUSE. 79 
lying and deceitful to a superlative degree; the more 
they receive the more they desire, but in return they 
will do nothing. 
Twenty or thirty of these disgusting, ash-smeared, 
stark naked brutes, armed with clubs of hard wood 
brought to a point, were lying idly about the station. 
The mission having given up the White Nile as 
a total failure, Herr Morlang sold the whole village 
and mission-station to Koorshid Aga this morning for 
3,000 piastres, £30 ! I purchased a horse of the 
missionaries for 1,000 piastres, which I christened 
“ Priest,” as coming from the mission; he is a good- 
looking animal, and has been used to the gun, as the 
unfortunate Baron Harnier rode him buffalo-hunting. 
This good sportsman was a Prussian nobleman, who, 
with two European attendants, had for some time 
amused himself by collecting objects of natural history 
and shooting in this neighbourhood. Both his Euro¬ 
peans succumbed to marsh fever. The end of Baron 
Harnier was exceedingly tragic. Having wounded a 
buffalo, the animal charged a native attendant and 
threw him to the ground; Baron Harnier was un¬ 
loaded, and with great courage he attacked the buffalo 
with the butt-end of his rifle to rescue the man then 
beneath the animal's horns. The buffalo left the man 
and turned upon his new assailant. The native, far 
