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SAVAGE SUDAN 
ment, while riding from Kassala towards Sinkat, was 
approached by a Hadendowa with a verbal petition for 
the release of his brother who was undergoing a sentence 
of two years’ imprisonment for manslaughter. (He had 
killed his man in some tribal row.) One of the two years 
had already been served ; and, after consideration of the 
case, the petition was granted and the unexpired period 
of the sentence was remitted. Thereupon, without sign 
of joy or gratitude, or even a civil word of thanks, the 
petitioner turned and left! He was, however, brought 
back by a member of the Staff, and on his boorish 
demeanour being pointed out to him, sullenly raised a 
hand in half-salute. 
In a maze of mental obfuscation, this Boeotian tribe 
seems to imagine itself (so far as we can follow such 
mentality) a race wholly independent of Turk and 
Egyptian, or of British rule alike. There exists in this 
passive contrariety no healthy index of manly “self- 
determination,” but merely dogged mental stagnation 
and atrophy. 
Garganey—Young Drake. 
Shot December 31st, 1913. In the featureless plumage of first year . . . 
a phase seldom or never seen in Europe. 
