CHAP. XV.] 
RECOVER THE ROUTE. 
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left us. It appeared that our captive had also heard 
the voices, and he was stealthily endeavouring to 
ascertain the cause when he was so roughly seized by 
Moosa. We now explained to him our route, and he 
at once led the way, relieving the native who had 
hitherto carried the bag of blankets. We had made 
a considerable circuit by turning from the direct path, 
but we now had the advantage of seeing the open 
country before us, and marching upon a good and 
even path. We walked for about three hours from 
this spot at a brisk pace, my wife falling three times 
from sheer fatigue, which induced stumbling over 
the slightest inequalities in the road. At length we 
descended a valley, and crossing a slight hollow, we 
commenced the ascent of a gentle inclination upon 
a beautiful grassy undulation crowned by a clump of 
large trees. In the stillness of the night wherever we 
had halted we had distinctly heard the distant roar of 
the river; but the sound had so much increased within 
the last hour that I felt convinced we must be near 
Foweera at the bend of the Victoria Nile. My wife 
was so exhausted with the long march, rendered 
doubly fatiguing by the dew that had added additional 
weight to her clothes, that she could hardly ascend the 
hill we had just commenced. For the last hour our 
guide had declared that Foweera was close to us ; but 
experienced in natives’ descriptions of distance, we 
were quite uncertain as to the hour at which we should 
arrive. We were nearly at the top of the hill, and 
within about tw T o hundred yards of the dense clump of 
trees my wife was obliged to confess that she could 
go no farther. Just at that moment a cock crowed; 
another replied immediately from the clump of trees 
close to us, and the guide, little appreciating the bless¬ 
ing of his announcement, told us that we had arrived 
at Kalloe’s village, for which we were bound. 
It was now nearly 5 a.m., and we had marched from 
Deang at 9 p.m. There was some caution required in 
approaching the village, as, should one of the Turks’ 
