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Food--Native
Manufactures --Knavery of Native Butter-dealers--Vapour Bath for
Fever--State Visit from the King--Mendicancy again--The King in love
with a Tooth-comb-- Effect of concave Mirror--Attempts at Ancient
History--Kamrasi's Request--Kamrasi affronted--Sudden Invasion of
the Country--Alarm and Cowardice of Kamrasi--The British Flag
protects Unyoro--Diplomatic Arrangement--Conference with Debono's
Party--Settle authoritatively all Objections--Retreat of the Invaders.

CHAPTER XV.
KAMRASI BEGS FOR THE BRITISH FLAG.
The pertinacious Beggar--Summary Justice for High Treason--Arrival
of Ivory for the Turks--Frightful Barbarities upon Captives--The
Female Captives--Treacherous Murder of Sali--Disputes with
Kamrasi--Advice to Kamrasi--The Turks begin to bully--Eddrees
refused Admittance at Court--Communicate with
Ibrahim--Drunkenness among the Unyoros-- Native Sorcerers--Implicit
Belief in Sorcerers--Invasion of the M'Was --Consulted by the King in
the Extremity--Kamrasi will not Fight--An invigorating little
Difficulty--Mock Valour by Unyoros--Kamrasi's Retreat--We are
Deserted--Prepare for Retreat--Leave Kisoona--Arrive at Deang--No
Water--Deserted again by the Porters--Richarn missing-- Richarn
reported as killed--The M'Was' Drums beat--March to Foweera-- The
Night Retreat--Lose the Road--At a Loss for direct Route--Capture a
Native--Recover the Route--Exhaustion of Mrs. Baker--Arrive at

Foweera--Well prepared--Refuse to assist Kamrasi--Richarn's Return--
Richarn's Story--The King in Distress--Arrival of Ibrahim with
Reinforcements--Receive Letters and Papers from Home--Kamrasi "is
himself again"--Invasion of the Langgo Country--The Whisky
Distillery --Kamrasi tries the Whisky--Butcheries by Kamrasi--Kamrasi
orders the Murder of Kalloe--Attempt to save Kalloe--Pursuit and
Capture of Kalloe --I intercede on his behalf--Death of a
Headman--Shot by order of Kamrasi--The Warning--The Bodyguard

CHAPTER XVI.
KAMRASI'S ADIEU,
Begging to the last--We quit Kamrasi's Territory--March to Shooa--
Arrive at Shooa--The Lira Tribe--Resemblance of Natives' and
Lawyers' Wigs--Result of the Turks' Razzias--Loss of Cattle by the
Turks--The Fight with Werdella--Courage of Werdella--Werdella
defeats the Turks-- Murder of a Native--Runaway slaves
recaptured--Brutality of the Turks --Little Abbai--The Children of the
Camp--Pleasant Time with the Children--Shoot a Crocodile--The Black
Rhinoceros--The Lira Head-dress--Native Use of Donkeys

CHAPTER XVII.
THE NATIVES IN MOURNING.
Results of the Ivory Campaign--Preparations for starting Homeward--
Part regretfully with the Children--The Traveller's Tree--View of the
Nile--Koshi and Madi--Gebel Kookoo--On Speke and Grant's Route--
Changes in the Nile--The Asua River--Suspicious Movements of the
Natives--Attacked in the Pass--Night in a hostile Country--Camp
surrounded by Natives--Poisoned Arrows shot into Camp--Sight
Belignan --Approach Gondokoro--Arrive at Gondokoro--Neither
Letters nor Supplies--Disappointment.

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM KHARTOUM.
Intelligence from Khartoum--Retreat of the Slaves--Influence gained
over Traders' People--Sail from Gondokoro--The Nile cleared of its
Mystery--The Victoria Source--Ptolemy's Theory--Rainfall--Affluents
of the White Nile--Action of the Abyssinian Rivers--Colonization
impossible--Slavery the Curse of Africa--Impotence of European
Consuls --Impossibility of convicting a Trader--Central Africa opened
to Navigation--Tribes of Central Africa--Vestiges of a Pre-Adamite
Creation--Geological Formation--Hypothesis of Equatorial Lakes--Sir
Roderick Murchison's Theories confirmed--Sir Roderick Murchison's
Address

CHAPTER XIX.
THE BLACK ANTELOPE.
Antelope shooting--Arrive at Junction of Bahr el Gazal--Arrive at the
Nile Dam--Character of the Obstruction--Passage through the
Dam--The Plague breaks out--Saat smitten by the Plague--Entertained
by Osman Bey--Saat dies--Burial of Saat--Arrival at Khartoum--Albert
Lake Reservoir of Nile--Destruction by the Plague--A Darkness that
might be felt--Horrible Slave Cargo--Meet with Mahommed
Her--Mahommed Her punished--Nearly wrecked--Stranded among
Cataracts--Clear the Danger --Start from Berber to Souakim--A Row in
the Desert--Combat with the Arabs--"Bravo, Zeneb!"--Disarm the
Arabs--Cross the Mountains--First View of the Sea--Souakim--Arrival
at Suez--Farewell to Africa-- Exertions appreciated

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

General Map of Country, Nile Basin Arms and Instruments of various
Tribes Nuehr Natives coming to the Boats Joctian, Chief of the Nuehr
Tribe Chief of Kytch and Daughter Starving boy of Kytch Tribe
begging The Boys who have begged A Homestead of the Bari
Tribe-The usual Attitudes of the Men Legge the Chief Commoro
running to the Fight Bokke-Wife of Moy, Chief of Latooka Drake's
Head Crimson-headed Spur-winged Goose The Latooka Funeral Dance
Latooka Blacksmiths The last Charge Head-dress of Obbo (1) and
Shoggo (2) Women of Obbo Katchiba's eldest Son Katchiba and his
Hebe on a Journey Overhauling the Giraffes The Obbo War Dance
Mehedehet Antelope Natives of Lira (1) and Madi (2) in the Camp at
Shooa My Examination by the Chiefs on entering Unyoro-Resolved,
that I am Speke's Brother The Start from the M'rooli for the Lake with
Kamrasi's Satanic Escort The Storm on the Albert Lake The Baggera
Lepidosiren Annecteus The Murchison Falls, about 120 ft. high from
the Victoria Nile or Somerset River to the Level of the Albert Lake The
Welcome on our Return to the Camp at Shooa Head of Black
Rhinoceros The Chief of the Lira Tribe Skirmish with the Natives

INTRODUCTION.
The primary object of geographical exploration is the opening to
general intercourse such portions of the earth as may become
serviceable to the human race. The explorer is the precursor of the
colonist; and the colonist is the human instrument by which the great
work must be constructed--that greatest and most difficult of all
undertakings--the civilization of the world.
The progress of civilization depends upon geographical position. The
surface of the earth presents certain facilities and obstacles to general
access; those