Excerpt from The Heart of Africa, Vol. 2 of 2: Three Years Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, From 1868 to 1871

Munza was impatiently awaiting the arrival of the Khartoomers. His storehouses were piled to the full with ivory and hunting booty of an entire year, which he was eager to exchange for the produce of the north or to see replaced by new supplies of the red ringing metal which should flow into his treasury.

This was Mohammed"s third visit to the country, and not only interested motives prompted the king to receive him warmly, but real attachment; for the two had mutually pledged their friendship in their blood, and called each other by the name of brother. During his absence in Khartoom, Mohammed had entrusted the command of the expedition of the previous year to his brother Abd-el-fetah, a Mussulman of the purest water and a hypocritical fanatic, who had greatly offended the king by his arrogance and unsympathetic reserve.

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