be a great backwater to the Nile, which the waters of the
Nile must haye been occupied in fillingduring my residence
in Madi ; and then about the J L time that I set
out from Madi, the Little Lhta Nzigd having been sm
charged with water, the surplus began its mlrch n o X
direction direction FFo r myXselrf, ?I !be lieve in thSista rotpeidn io“n , tahse hsea mnoe
IT hhaavvee aXlr eaddmye m ent3ion Ce0dU Wof atchceo urinvtefro ratiplpee pahrienngo mtoe ndoencrease
m bulk as we descended it, t h a / l S S
advanced his own theoiy. Moreover, the same hypo^ s&ssrfor the siuggai flooding ° f *
1188 fon°wed thus
S “ to u te d m knowing how “ my faithful chil-
, ■ t o y k * services I had no further occasion and
whom I had taken so far from their own count™ w tre
S S I ™ np in
i l l .1 of tlem photographed, and in-
Bv ?„ a‘ pubH° “ "oerte, tableaus vivants, fie.
mutation, we called on the Viceroy at his Ehoda
Island palace, and were much gratified with the reception-
for, after hearing all our stories with marked intelligence’
he mosgraciously offered to assist me in SB
undertaking which would assist to open up and develon
the interior of Africa. P aeveiop
I next appointed Bombay captain of the “faithfuls ” and
gave him three photographs of all the eighteen men and
tb.ee more of the four women, to give one of each E E
Consuls at Sues, Aden, and Zansibar, by which they might
be recognised. I also gave them increased L g S ®
to three years pay each, by orders on Zansibar, which was
one m addition to their time of service; an order for a
grand freeman's garden,” to be purchased for them at
W a r ; and an order that e a h one should r ^ i v e
ten dollars dowiy-money as soon as he could find a wife.