CHAPTER VIII. 
ibrahim’s return. 
Ibrahim returned from Gondokoro, bringing with 
him a large supply of ammunition. A wounded man 
of Chenooda’s people also arrived, the sole relic of the 
fight with the Latookas; he had been left for dead, 
but had recovered, and for days and nights he had 
wandered about the country, in thirst and hunger, 
hiding like a wild beast from the sight of human 
beings, liis guilty conscience marking every Latooka 
as an enemy. As a proof of the superiority of the 
natives to the Khartoumers, he had at length been 
met by some Latookas, and not only was well treated 
and fed by their women, but they had guided him to 
Ibrahim’s camp. 
The black man is a curious anomaly, the good and 
bad points of human nature bursting forth without any 
arrangement, like the flowers and thorns of his own 
