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