CHAPTEK II. 
BAD RECEPTION AT GONDOKORO. 
All were thankful that the river voyage was con¬ 
cluded ; the tedium of the White Nile will have been 
participated by the reader, upon whom I have inflicted 
the journal, as no other method of description could 
possibly convey an idea of the general desolation. 
Having landed all my stores, and housed my corn in 
some granaries belonging to Koorshid Aga, 1 took a 
receipt from him for the quantity, and gave him an 
order to deliver one-half from my depot to Speke and 
Grant, should they arrive at Gondokoro during my 
absence in the interior. I was under an apprehension 
that they might arrive by some route without my 
knowledge, while I should be penetrating south. 
There were a great number of men at Gondokoro 
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belonging to the various traders, who looked upon me 
with the greatest suspicion ; they could not believe 
