{"id":345,"date":"2026-01-16T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/word\/?p=345"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:35:34","slug":"we-gave-up-all-hope-of-gondokoro-and-were-resigned-to-our-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/we-gave-up-all-hope-of-gondokoro-and-were-resigned-to-our-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"We gave up all hope of Gondokoro, and were resigned to our fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We gave up all hope of Gondokoro, and were resigned to our fate. This, we felt sure, was to be buried in Chopi, the name of our village. I wrote instructions in my journal, in case of death, and told my headman to be sure to deliver my maps, observations, and papers to the English Consul at Khartoum. This was my only care, as I feared that all my labor might be lost should I die. I had no fear for my wife, as she was quite as bad as I, and if one should die the other would certainly follow; in fact, this had been agreed upon, lest she should fall into the hands of Kamrasi at my death. We had struggled to win, and I thanked God that we had won. If death were to be the price, at all events we were at the goal, and we both looked upon death rather as a pleasure, as affording REST. There would be no more suffering, no fever, no long journey before us, that in our weak state was an infliction. The only wish was to lay down the burden. Curious is the warfare between the animal instincts and the mind! Death would have been a release that I would have courted; but I should have liked that one &#8220;English beefsteak and pale ale&#8221; before I died!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gave up all hope of Gondokoro, and were resigned to our fate. This, we felt sure, was to be buried in Chopi, the name of our village. 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