Ten years in Equatoria; . adi, and encourage disheartenedpeople. Also that the Donagla ought to be sent to the other sideof the Nile in order to protect them from the persecutions of themilitary party. Emin answered that he considered his presenceindispensable at Lado, and ordered that all Arabs should leave thetown, but repealed this order soon after. The state of affairs was becoming more and more serious andintricate. Keremallah was sometimes writing threatening letters;at others exhortations to surrender, whilst the blacks were every-where joining the Mahdis party against the Government. O
Ten years in Equatoria; . adi, and encourage disheartenedpeople. Also that the Donagla ought to be sent to the other sideof the Nile in order to protect them from the persecutions of themilitary party. Emin answered that he considered his presenceindispensable at Lado, and ordered that all Arabs should leave thetown, but repealed this order soon after. The state of affairs was becoming more and more serious andintricate. Keremallah was sometimes writing threatening letters;at others exhortations to surrender, whilst the blacks were every-where joining the Mahdis party against the Government. On the last day of the year the sad news reached us, that, at thegarrison place of Bor, on the eastern bank of the Nile, 107 soldiershad been killed, amongst them being a captain and a lieutenant,by the allied negro tribes (Bor, Agar, Nuer, and Eliab) ; ten boxes 2o6 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. of ammunition and fifty-nine Remington rifles having been takenby the enemy. The new year 1885 began under no better auspices. No news. BUST OF A MAKRAKA XEGKO. from Khartoum. Every hope of help had to be given up. Thedeputation had deserted us and joined the invaders. On the Gth of January, Osman Arbab, one of the deputies. / START FOR LADO. 207 wrote advising surrender, as he was before Amadi with 400 soldiers,and awaiting other troops. For the welfare of the province he hadpledged himself to convey employes and soldiers to Keremallah atDem Solyman. Three battles had already been fought, with loss of life andammunition, and with no practical result. At Amadi the disagree-ment amongst the chiefs and the indiscipline of the troops jeopar-dised any future chance. The soldiers had not yet obeyed the orderto leave Mambettu and make for Makraka. There was no unity of action in the province, and chance wasbecoming the only ruler of events. I decided to leave Wandy, and on the 20th of Jannary I startedfor Lado, yielding to the reiterated invitations of Junker andEmin. The line of waterparting betwe
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