r backs upon all foreigners, and even abuse the
missionaries for having been the precursors of such dire calamities. The
shell of the brick church at Gondokoro, and the cross on the top of a
native-built hut in Kich, are all that will remain to bear testimony of
these Christian exertions to improve the condition of these heathens.
Want of employment, I heard was the chief operative cause in killing the
poor missionaries; for, with no other resource left them to kill time,
they spent their days eating, drinking, smoking, and sleeping, till they
broke down their constitutions by living too fast.

Mr Moorlan became very friendly, and said he was sorry he could not do
more for us. His headquarters were at Kich, some way down the river,
where, as we passed, he hoped at least he might be able to show us as
much attention and hospitality as lay in his power. Mosquitoes were said
to be extremely troublesome on the river, and my men begged for some
clothes, as Petherick, they said, had a store for me under the charge of
his Vakil. The storekeeper was then called, and confirming the story of
my men, I begged him to give me what was my own. It then turned out that
it was all Petherick's, but he had orders to give me on account anything
that I wanted. This being settled, I took ninety-five yards of the
commonest stuff as a makeshift for mosquito-curtains for my men, besides
four sailor's shirts for my head men.

On the 18th, Kurshid Agha was summoned by the constant fire of musketry,
a mile or two down the river, and went off in his vessels to the relief.
A party of his had come across from the N'yambara country with ivory,
and on the banks of the Nile, a few miles north of this, were engaged
fighting with the natives. He arrived just in time to settle the
difficulty, and next day came back again, having shot some of the enemy
and captured their cows. Petherick, we heard, was in a difficulty of
the same kind, upon which I proposed to go down with Baker and Grant
to succour him; but he arrived in time, in company with his wife and Dr
James Murie, to save us the trouble, and told me he had brought a number
of men with him, carrying ivory, for the purpose now of looking after me
on the east bank of the Nile, by following its course up to the south,
though he had given up all hope of seeing me, as a report had reached
him of the desertion of my porters at Ugogo. He then offered me his
dyabir, as well as anything else that I wanted that