450 RUNAWAY SLAVES RECAPTURED. [chap. xvi. 
“ Sinbad ” of Bormi, who had himself been a slave, 
was the most indefatigable slave-hunter. He and a 
party at once started upon the tracks of the fugitives. 
They did not return until the following day ; but where 
was the runaway who could escape from so true a 
bloodhound? The young girl and her mother were 
led into camp tied together by the neck, and were 
immediately condemned to be hanged. I happened to 
be present, as, knowing the whole affair, I had been 
anxiously awaiting the result. I took this opportunity 
of explaining to the Turks that I would use any force 
to prevent such an act, and that I would report the 
names of all those to the Egyptian authorities who 
should commit any murder that I could prove; neither 
would I permit the two captives to be flogged—they 
were accordingly pardoned.'* 
There was among the slaves a woman who had been 
captured in the attack upon Fowooka. This woman 
I have already mentioned as having a very beautiful 
boy, who at the time of the capture was a little more 
than a year old. So determined was her character, 
that she had run away five times with her child, but on 
every occasion she had been recaptured, after having 
suffered much by hunger and thirst in endeavouring to 
find her way back to Unyoro through the uninhabited 
wilderness between Shooa and Karuma. On the last 
occasion of her capture, the Turks had decided upon 
her being incorrigible, therefore she had received 144 
blows with the coorbatch (hippopotamus whip), and 
had been sold separately from her child to the party 
belonging to Mahommed Wat-el-Mek. Little Abbai 
had always been a great pet of Mrs. Baker's, and the 
unfortunate child being now motherless, he was 
naturally adopted, and led a most happy life. 
Although much under two years old, he was quite 
* It will be observed tbat at this period of the expedition I had 
acquired an extraordinary influence over the people, that enabled 
me to exert an authority which saved the lives of many unfortunate 
creatures who would otherwise have been victims. 
