But we were now among the mountains whose drainage causes the sudden rise of the Atbara and the Nile.
Abou Do and Suleiman had lately given us some trouble, especially the former, whose covetous nature had induced him to take much more than his share of the hides of rhinoceros and other animals shot.

The horses of the aggageers had, moreover, been lamed by reckless riding, and Abou Do coolly proposed that I should lend them horses.

Having a long journey before me, I refused, and they became discontented.

It was time to part, and I ordered him and his people to return to Geera.

As Taher Sherrif's party had disagreed with Abou Do some time previously, and had left us, we were now left without aggageers.
On the following day I succeeded in killing a buffalo, which I ordered my men, after they had flayed it, to leave as a bait for lions.
That night we were serenaded by the roaring of these animals in all directions, one of them having visited our camp, around which we discovered his footprints on the following morning.