The melancholy rumour about Sir Samuel and Lady Baker has
been sufficiently disposed of by two telegrams which the Daily Telegraph of last Thursday received from Alexandria and from Khartoum. Before these telegrams were received, it became known that Sir Samuel had not taken all his force with him from Gondokoro in January, 1872, to tho region of the Victoria Nyanza, but had left some eight hundred men behind him there. It is now stated that Sir Samuel and his party are well at a place which both the telegrams call Fatookra, and which the Daily Tekgraph conjectures to be identical with a place marked on Sir Samuel Baker's map as Fatik.o, and elsewhere as Fatuka. This place is eleven days' march above Gondokoro. Wherever it be, Sir Samuel had just sent from Fatookra to Gondokoro for a re- inforcement of two hundred men, so that we may fairly conclude that neither hie confidence nor his resources are yet exhausted. Probably, however, he is beginning to doubt by this time if he has at his disposal force enough for the purposes of his expedition.
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