Ten years in Equatoria; . nt; theirfrivolity and culpable carelessness in all operations that they donot entirely fancy; their distressing loss of courage in face ofillness, even when it is not severe; are all very serious defects,but are probably caused by the inferior kind of education theyreceive at present. Taken from his savage habits and mode of life, improved by in-struction, his moral and intellectual faculties developed by kindteaching, and not by the tyranny of European superiority, hecannot fail to fulfil, by his conduct, the hopes now entertained ofhim. In the short journey from Wa
Ten years in Equatoria; . nt; theirfrivolity and culpable carelessness in all operations that they donot entirely fancy; their distressing loss of courage in face ofillness, even when it is not severe; are all very serious defects,but are probably caused by the inferior kind of education theyreceive at present. Taken from his savage habits and mode of life, improved by in-struction, his moral and intellectual faculties developed by kindteaching, and not by the tyranny of European superiority, hecannot fail to fulfil, by his conduct, the hopes now entertained ofhim. In the short journey from Wau to Jur Gattas, I was troubledwith slight feverish attacks ; on the twelfth day my illness in-creased, and on the following day an attack of typhus put my lifein jeopardy. Gessi, with truly anxious care, deferred his departure, the dayfor which had been fixed; his heart was torn by anxiety at myalmost certain doom ; he installed himself at my bedside as doctorand nurse, and administered to me larofe doses of real African. CASATFS ILLNESS. 45 quinine; lie sighed with intense relief when on the morning ofthe Ikh the crisis was safely passed. Two days afterwards woexchanged our adieux on the borders of the desert, and an embracewhich was, alas! to be our last. Hardly was Gessi gone, before order, tranquillity, and disciplinewere disturbed a#d banished, to be succeeded by exjjlosions ofwrath, base vengeance, and reactionary intrigues. The Arabs andthe Gellaba, who had been driven away, returned at once to domi-neer and influence public opinion, and the few who remainedfaithful were obliged to withdraw in silence. I had received plenty of provisions, which ought to have been
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