chap, hi.] THREATS OF KOORSHWS PEOPLE. 139 1 
men, which tended to confirm the reports I had heard 
from the boy Saat. This Mahommed Her started from 
Gondokoro for Latooka. Koorshids men would start two 
days later; these were rival parties, both antagonistic,, 
but occupying the same country, the Latooka; both 
equally hostile to me, but as the party of Mahommed 
Her were Dongalowas, and that of Koorshid were 
Jalyns and Soodanes, I trusted eventually to turn their 
disputes to my own advantage. 
The plan that I had arranged was to leave all the 
baggage not indispensable with Koorshid Aga at 
Gondokoro, who would return it to Khartoum. I 
intended to wait until Koorshid s party should march, 
when I resolved to follow them, as I did not believe 
they would dare to oppose me by force, their master 
himself being friendly. I considered their threats as 
mere idle boasting, to frighten me from an attempt to 
follow them; but there was another more serious cause 
of danger to be apprehended. 
On the route, between Gondokoro and Latooka, 
there was a powerful tribe among the mountains of 
Ellyria. The chief of that tribe (Legge) had formerly 
massacred a hundred and twenty of a trader s party. 
He was an ally of Koorshid’s people, who declared 
that they would raise the tribe against me, which 
would end in the defeat or massacre of my party. 
