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HISTORY OF SHIT. 
[chap. hi. 
the sack was opened, and an Arab threatened him with 
a knife should he make the slightest noise. Thus 
quieted, he was carried hundreds of miles through 
Kordofan to Dongola on the Nile, at which place he 
was sold to slave-dealers, and taken to Cairo to be sold 
to the Egyptian government as a drummer-boy. Being 
too young he was rejected, and while in the dealers 
hands he heard from another slave, of the Austrian 
Mission at Cairo, that would protect him could he only 
reach their asylum. With extraordinary energy for a 
child of six years old, he escaped from his master, and 
made his way to the Mission, where he was well 
received., and to a certain extent disciplined and taught 
as much of the Christian religion as he could under¬ 
stand. In company with a branch establishment of 
the Mission, he was subsequently located at Khartoum, 
and from thence was sent up the White Nile to a 
Mission-station in the Shillook country. The climate 
of the White Nile destroyed thirteen missionaries in 
the short space of six months, and the boy Saat returned 
with the remnant of the party to Khartoum, and was 
re-admitted into the Mission. The establishment was 
at that time swarming with little black boys from the 
various White Nile tribes, who repaid the kindness of 
the missionaries by stealing everything they could lay 
their hands upon. At length the utter worthlessness 
