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Madi.
Junction of the Two Hemispheres--The First Contact with Persons Acquainted with European Habits--Interruptions and Plots--The Mysterious Mahamed--Native Revelries--The Plundering and Tyranny of the Turks--The Rascalities of the Ivory Trade--Feeling for the Nile--Taken to see a Mark left by a European--Buffalo, Eland, and Rhinoceros Stalking--Meet Baker--Petherick's Arrival at Gondokoro.
After receiving more pombe from the chief, and, strange to say, hot water to wash with--for he did not know how else to show hospitality better--we started again in the same straggling manner as yesterday.

In two hours we reached the palace of Piejoko, a chief of some pretensions, and were summoned to stop and drink pombe.

In my haste to meet Petherick's expedition, I would listen to nothing, but pushed rapidly on, despite all entreaties to stop, both from the chief and from my porters, who, I saw clearly, wished to do me out of another day.
Half of my men, however, did stop there, but with the other half Grant and I went on; and, as the sun was setting, we came in sight of what we thought was Petherick's outpost, N.lat.3 deg.

10' 33", and E.long.21 deg.
50' 45".