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the flesh of the waterbuck to the Latooka porters be¬ 
longing to Ibrahim’s party. Thus all teeth were busy. 
Ibrahim and his men occupied the shade of another 
enormous tree at about a hundred and fifty yards’ 
distance. 
The town was Latome, one of the principal places in 
the Latooka country, and was strongly palisaded, like 
the town of Wakkala. I did not go through the 
entrance, but contented myself with resting under my 
tree and writing up the journal from my note-book. 
Before we had been there many hours the two parties 
of Ibrahim and Mahommed Her were engaged in a 
hot contention. Mahommed Her declared that no one 
had a right of way through that country, which be¬ 
longed to him according to the customs of the White 
Nile trade; that he would not permit the party of 
Ibrahim to proceed, and that, should they persist in 
their march, he would resist them by force. Words 
grew high ;—Ibrahim was not afraid of force, as he 
had a hundred and forty men against Mahommed Her’s 
hundred and five;—insults and abuse were liberally 
exchanged, while the natives thronged around, enjoy¬ 
ing the fun, until at last Mahommed Her’s temper 
becoming outrageous, he was seized by the throat by 
Sulieman, a powerful choush or sergeant of Ibrahim’s 
party, and hurled away from the select society who 
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