. From the Niger to the Nile . ng, he and some of his men succeeded in recovering allexcept one box, which contained 1000 cartridges. Anothertime, while the crews were towing the boats up some rapids,the rope attached to the one he was in broke, and the boatwas swiftly carried towards the rough water among the rocksbelow. Jose immediately jumped overboard, caught therope and swam with it to the bank, where he managed tofhng it round a tree just in time to save the boat from therocks. The journey up the Gongola occupied about eighteen daysto Ashaka, where the Expedition was to concentrate again
. From the Niger to the Nile . ng, he and some of his men succeeded in recovering allexcept one box, which contained 1000 cartridges. Anothertime, while the crews were towing the boats up some rapids,the rope attached to the one he was in broke, and the boatwas swiftly carried towards the rough water among the rocksbelow. Jose immediately jumped overboard, caught therope and swam with it to the bank, where he managed tofhng it round a tree just in time to save the boat from therocks. The journey up the Gongola occupied about eighteen daysto Ashaka, where the Expedition was to concentrate again,and three days after Joses arrival my brother and Talbotcame in from the survey in the Kerri-Kerri country. My 154 FEOM THE NIGER TO THE NILE brother then went on with the stores to Gujba, where hecollected carriers to send back to help with the boat Talbot had started south to carry the surveyinto the Barburr country, with the intention of joining mybrother again in the neighbourhood of Maidugari, in which. STARVATIOjr AT direction the latter set out, when Jose came up with him atGujba. We must now go back to Numan at the mouth of theGongola, where we left Gosling who had arrived there a weeklater than Jose. On August 11 he set out in his canoe upthe river seven miles to a Bashima village called the way no sign of life was seen except a stray goose ortwo. The village, too, had a deserted appearance, with brokenwalls and skeletons of inhabitants, who were subsisting ongrass seeds and green millet. Many were said to have diedlately, and he did not see more than thirty people in sent for the lammido, as the king of a village is calledin these parts, and after a delay a bony old man came to him UP THE GONGOLA RIVER TO ASHAKA 155 with lamentations and woe to say that the lammidowas just dead. In exchange for some wood Goshng gavehim some biscuit, half a pound of meal, and a looking-glasswhich I should think must have given the old m
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