ngth of the ordinaries, the eighth double
that of the seventh, and the ninth 20 inches long. Bombay says the same
bird is found in Uhiyow.]
[Footnote 22: It is questionable whether or not this word is a
corruption of Bahr (sea of) Ingo.]
[Footnote 23: This obviously was an allusion to the way in which the
first king of Uganda was countenanced by the great king of Kittara,
according to the tradition given in Chapter IX.]
[Footnote 24: 1 double rifle, 1 block-tin box, 1 red blanket, 1 brown
do., 10 copper wire, 4 socks full of different-coloured minute beads, 2
socks full of blue and white pigeon eggs, 1 Rodgers's pen-knife, 2
books, 1 elastic circle, 1 red handkerchief, 1 bag gun-caps, 1 pair
scissors, 1 pomatum-pot, 1 quart bottle, 1 powder flask, 7 lb. powder, 1
dressing-case, 1 blacking-box, 1 brass lock and key, 4 brass handles, 8
brass sockets, 7 chintz, 7 binders, 1 red bag, 1 pair glass spectacles,
1 lucifer-box.]
[Footnote 25: It will appear shortly that is was actually not more than
two marches to the northward of Faloro.]
[Footnote 26: Dr Khoblecher, the founder of the Austrian Church Mission
Establishment of Gondokoro, ascertained that the Nile reached its lowest
level there in the middle of January.]
[Footnote 27: The Baroness Miss A. van Capellan, and Mrs and Miss
Tinne.]
[Footnote 28: See Petherick's succouring petition, addressed to the
Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, President of the Royal Geographical Society,
in the Proceedings of that Society, date 10th June 1860.]
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