. Du Niger au Nil . LE BASSIN SACRÉ DE CROCODILES de la peau. La dernière opération a été de frotter les incisionsavec du beurre. Cet homme avait son dos fait et ne semblait pas l'apprécier. À Wukari, à une quinzaine de kilomètres au sud d'Ibi, où Goslingand et mon frère ont eu l'occasion d'aller chasser et de recueillir le grain pour l'expédition projetée, qui devait passer par le pays où la nourriture était rare, il ya isa htle pool juste à l'extérieur du village, seulement environ 20 pieds et très profond, ce que les autochtones disent ressort d'une rivière souterraine. C'est la maison d'un certain nombre de crocodiles ha
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. From the Niger to the Nile . THE SACRED CROCODILE POOL from the skin. The last operation was to rub the incisionswith butter. This man was having his back done and didnot seem to enjoy it. At Wukari, some fifteen miles south of Ibi, where Goslingand my brother had occasion to go, hunting and collect-ing grain for the projected survey expedition, which wouldbe passing through country where food was scarce, there isa httle pool just outside the village, only about 20 ft. longand very deep, which the natives say springs from a sub-terranean river. It is the home of a number of crocodilesthat have been there as long as the memory of man andare believed to have come up through the sources of the OUR JOUENEY UP THE NIGER AND BENUE 45 water. Two of them are 8 ft. lon<f. Here the natives comedown and wash all among them on perfectly friendly terms.Wukari stands high and is consequently used as a health. MONTOII. CANNIBAL CHIEF resort for Ibi, which is an unhealthy, fever-stricken place.Horses are also sent up there to avoid the tetse-fly belt roundIbi in the wet season. We ourselves lost two in a very shorttime. The news of their deaths was broken to us by ourhorse-boys coming with long faces and bearing the tails ofthe unfortunate animals as a proof that they were dead andnot misappropriated, for the native boy never expects tobe believed without a proof in his hand. 46 FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE While we were at Ibi the old cannibal king of the Gurkawawas sent in as a prisoner, the result of a Government expe-dition from the post of Waseagainst that tribe. In the Ju-Juhouse of his country five skullsof native traders were found, which had been picked cleanby this old gentleman. Mybrother took photographs ofhim, an operation which causedhim some alarm, for he hadnever had a camera levelled athim before. One day in the Ibi marketI saw the pitiful sight of amalefactor with his right ha
