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.
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