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Updated: June 27, 2025
Not only would the Tokrooris benefit by the change, but, should it be decided that the Abyssinian frontier, instead of extending to the Atbara river, should be confined to the ridge of the great mountain chain, the revenues of Upper Egypt might be enormously increased by the establishment of a Tokroori colony, as proposed.
As I had no taste for this disgusting work, I took two of my Tokrooris, Hadji Ali and Hassan, and, accompanied by old Abou Do, the father of the sheik, with his harpoon, we started along the margin of the river in quest of hippopotami.
They had heard the sharp click of the locks, and they remembered the firing of the grass on a former occasion when I had nearly burnt the camp; not a camel moved. My Tokrooris and Taher Noor now came forward as mediators, and begged me not to shoot the camels.
The discomfited fiddler was wiped down by my Tokrooris, who occasionally burst into renewed fits of laughter during the operation; the mule was caught, and the minstrel remounted, and returned home completely out of tune. On the following morning, at sunrise, I mounted my horse, and, accompanied by Taher Noor and Bacheet, I rode to pay my respects to Mek Nimmur.
We formed a regular procession through the market, our Tokrooris feeling quite at home among so many of their brethren. While here I visited the establishments of the various slave merchants. These were arranged under large tents formed of matting, and contained many young girls of extreme beauty, ranging from nine to seventeen years of age.
This had been a capital trial for my Tokrooris, who had behaved remarkably well, and had gained much confidence by my successful forehead-shot at the elephant when in full charge; but I must confess that this is the only instance in which I have succeeded in killing an African elephant by the front shot, although I have steadily tried the experiment upon subsequent occasions.
On the following morning I found them sitting in the market-place, having established stalls, at which they were selling all the various trophies of their expedition fat, hides, whips, sandals, bracelets, &c. The district inhabited by the Tokrooris is about forty miles in length, including a population of about twenty thousand.
My Tokrooris were just preparing to run in and cut the throat, as good Mussulmans, when the buffalo, that was not twenty yards distant, suddenly sprang to his feet and faced us.
This was a splendid chance, but I was unloaded; I stretched my right arm behind me, expecting to receive a spare rifle from my faithful Tokrooris, but they had retreated from the scene, and I remained within 6 feet of a lion's flank with an unloaded rifle and no companion.
Fright of the Tokrooris Deserters who didn't desert Arrival of the Sherrif brothers Now for a tally-ho! On the heels of the rhinoceroses The Abyssinian rhinoceros Every man for himself.
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