s these Turks are allowed to ride rough-shod over the people. The
Turks, however, had their losses also; for on the way four Bari men
and one Bari slave-girl slipped off with a hundred of their plundered
cattle, and neither they nor the cattle could be found again. Mijalwa
was here convicted of having stolen the cloth of a Turk whilst living in
his hut when he was away at the Paira plundering and got fifty lashes to
teach him better behaviour for the future.

A party of fifty men came from Labure, a station on ahead of this, to
take service as porters, knowing that at this season the Turks always
come with a large herd of plundered cattle, which they call government
property, and give in payment to the men who carry their tusks of ivory
across the Bari country.

We now marched over a rolling ground, covered in some places with
bush-jungle, in others with villages, where there were fine trees,
resembling oaks in their outward appearance; and stopping one night at
the settlement of Barwudi, arrived at Labure, where we had to halt a day
for Mahamed to collect some ivory from a depot he had formed near by.
We heard there was another ivory party collecting tusks at Obbo, a
settlement in the country of Panuquara, twenty miles east of this.

Next we crossed a nullah draining into the Nile, and, travelling over
more rolling ground, flanked on the right by a range of small hills, put
up at the Madi frontier station, Mugi, where we had to halt two days to
collect a full complement of porters to traverse the Bari country, the
people of which are denounced as barbarians by the Turks, because they
will not submit to be bullied into carrying their tusks for them. Here
we felt an earthquake. The people would not take beads, preferring, they
said, to make necklaces and belts out of ostrich-eggs, which they cut
into the size of small shirt-buttons, and then drill a hole through
their centre to string them together. A passenger told us that three
white men had just arrived in vessels at Gondokoro; and the Bari people,
hearing of our advance, instead of trying to kill us with spears,
had determined to poison all the water in their country. Mahamed now
disposed of half of his herd of cows, giving them to the chiefs of the
villages in return for porters. These, he said, were all that belonged
to the government; for the half of all captures of cows, as well as all
slaves, all goats, and sheep, were allowed to the men as part of their
pay.