New-York tribune., 1900-07-08

ib.nl[ Hayeht az seen It, so you VIII gee what they
ma oI me stupendous task before usl AS
'ASt1eF OF fact, we do II easily on $40 Cs10
Now. as 20 how we do it, on arrfvina AT a
Lux We tie up the steamer and set everv+h him Q
-, -, = lHen cut down all the dead papyr,1s etc
ver1- -oL III She suua' until Il soon looks like a
very rough field. Then this field" is dur int0
t-r --,,,ct secuons four or five yards square: the
Lss are aug 70 about two feet under water
1ne sud- Itself is one, two or three feet above
Sater and from six TO ten underneath Next we
~ pieces or wood round our section (cut UP
leleeFaph poles), fix wire hAwser round the
SeSuon showed we'll down in the trenches nd
pehind the posts. and bring the two ends on tn-
.gaHler; The steamer then backs astern. aDss
SNentualy pulls out the section which Aoats
ao~n stream. The wire is got inboard again the
another section The force and Jerk which tho
steamer brings on the wire sever the roots of
the section underneath from the Others-or al
east sometimes does. That's the idea.
February 5. 19o0-We got through this block
on the 9TH, having been eighteen days at it but
t tIieIe Is a lot TO be done yet 10 finish. To-day
Is a holiday. the first one for month The
Sther boat up here has gone ep to view the
fourth block. fifteen miles of When We GET
through all the sudd we are going on south In a
procession as far as we can go. which may be a
htne south Of Gondokoro pronounced Gondock-
some rapids, which, l sorry 10 say, we shall
not be able 10 pass. We are IN hopes Of getting
pack TO khartoum In May.
ONE CLEARANCE HELPS ANOTHER.
February ., 190O-The Tawai. which went on
to the fourth block yesterday. returned in the
evening with the good news that the alteration
IN the river caused by our opening the third
block had broken adrift the fourth block, which
has been coming down the river in pieces so
she went on 70 the fifth block, thirty miles from
mere. which they report is about six hundred
yards long, fairly easy and that one has also
started breaking up.
FEBRUARY l6. 1901 am now by myself at
the fifth block, getting along very well at IT,
As Is our usual custom at each block we turned
up q dead crocodile. which the Dervishes wanted
10 eat but as he was Sc very offensive couldn't
allow IT. One Of the seanlen OF one Of the barges
died the other night in a most extraordinary
Tnapner he went 10 sleep in one of the holds
and was sumoCated. We have lost about twenty
hVe Dervishes so far, which is not 10 be Won
dered az, considering the state they were in
When they came up here-a lot of them had
chicken pOX too
A young fellow, Progan by name, was sud
denly discovered one day by our doctor while
ne was out shooting UP the Bahr-el-Zeraf He
has done really remarkable performance hay
ing walked here the whole way from Uganda
with only six uen-in fact, he originally came
from the Cape, so 1 should think VIII be the
first man to do the little journey, Cape to Cairo,
No one was more surprised and l EXPECT
pleased, than he 70 find our party up here ready
TO give him a lift down TO Cairo. Steamer r.
rives tomorrow and takes mail so farewell
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